a variety of research problems ranging from physiology to pharmacology, 

 and from genetics and behavioral studies to biogeography,, In FY-62 and 63, 

 individual research projects that aim to contribute to the knowledge of 

 marine organisms will be supported in essentially all (some 20) non- 

 governmental marine laboratories in the country where such work is 

 conducted, and in some 70 additional universities, colleges, and other 

 research institutions <> Such work will include, for example, systematic 

 studies on the classification, relationships, variation and evolution 

 of marine invertebrates, fishes, algae, plankton and parasitic forms; 

 studies on the distribution, migration, life histories and growth of 

 such forms; their physiology, reproduction, climatic adaptations, 

 locomotion, tolerances, behavior and functions „ Work will be supported, 

 also, dealing with the productivity of the sea, the nitrogen cycle, the 

 effects of chemical constituents on the biota, and shallow water and 

 deep sea communities „ Support is also provided for ship time for 

 biological oceanography and for the expansion and improvement of marine 

 laboratories and their graduate training programs „ 



During FY-63 3 major ship facilities will be significantly advanced, 

 with a biological research vessel being "built for Duke University on the 

 East Coast, and two made ready on the West Coast, one for Hopkins Marine 

 Laboratory of Stanford University that is to have unique training 

 features as a floating classroom and laboratory combined, and another 

 at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Other types of facilities that 

 will be supported or that are now becoming operational include a new 

 laboratory building at Friday Harbor Laboratories of the University 

 of Washington; a controlied-environment facility, called a marinostat, 

 at Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove; a new laboratory building to 

 house biological and chemical research at Woods Hole Oceanographic 

 Institution; and a laboratory at Lamont Geological Observatory,, Facility- 

 type support is also being given to the construction of a boat basin for 

 marine research in Texas, building expansion at the Bermuda Biological 

 Station, the marine biological laboratory at the University of California, 

 Santa Barbara, and the Cape Haze Marine Laboratory, and the establishment 

 and support of the Vermillion Sea Field Station , 



The biological portion of the United States participation in the 

 International Indian Ocean Expedition will be entirely supported by NSF 

 through Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution „ Logistic support has been 

 given by NSF to the development of the biological research program, and 

 the USS WILLIAMSBURG is now being taken over from the Navy and undergoing 

 reactivation in order to serve as the U S„ biological research vessel 

 in that activity during FT-63 to 65 = Some 250 American biologists responded 

 to the invitation to submit plans for participation in this expedition, 

 and it is foreseen that sufficient data will be gathered in Indian Ocean 

 waters to require continuing logistic support for its assimilation for 

 several years beyond the official termination of I o I o o E„ 



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