oceanography for all students. Second is the intimate working 

 relationship with the Department of Meteorology, and third is the 

 availability of the Fleet Numerical Weather Central for student and 

 faculty research and practice-oriented experience. 



The graduates of all these programs can elect either to remain 

 line officers of the Navy with an 8703 P-code, or to apply for selection 

 as special duty officers with the new designator 1820 (Oceanographer/ 

 Hydrographer). The P-code is a number which indicates the field of 

 graduate study (subspecialty) of the line officer who alternates betw^een 

 shore and sea assignments, and the designator is a number which 

 indicates the specialty of an officer whose assignments would be within 

 the area of specialization. 



The question now should be raised as to whether it is sensible to 

 provide the same curricular programs, to the same degree level, 

 for both specialists and subspecialists in oceanography, as we are 

 now doing. 



I think probably not, and we are in the midst of reviewing this 

 question at Monterey in preparation for discussions with the curriculum 

 sponsor. 



In the future it seems likely that there will be three general 

 interests represented among the officers enrolling in the oceanographic 

 curricula. One will be the officer who is already a specialist, or hopes 

 to be selected for the specialist category. Another is the line officer 

 who is interested in a subspecialty in oceanography. The third is an 

 officer whose major and primary subspecialty is in another area such 

 as meteorology, but who wants a second subspecialty or a minor in 

 oceanography. 



First let's take a look at the specialist and see what trends will 

 affect the education he should get. An example is in one of the rapidly 

 developing aspects of oceanography - prediction. Two significant 

 recent reports - The Effective Use of the Sea in I966 and the Stratton 

 Report of 1969^ stressed the unity of the environmental sciences of 

 meteorology and physical oceanography. These sciences are not in 

 balance now, because synoptic analysis and prediction of the ocean 

 variables is just becoming a significant effort, while meteorological 

 forecasts have been issued for decades. 



In the analysis and prediction of the ocean variables of pressure, 

 temperature, salinity and water motion the same basic equations are 

 used as in predicting the corresponding variables of pressure, tem- 

 perature, moisture, and motion in the atmosphere. Captain Paul M. 



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