6. Atomic Energy Committee, Office of Naval Research and 



National Science Foundation 



Financial support to various U. S. participants in EQUALANTS 

 I, II and III. Atomic Energy Committee provided funds for C-l4 

 and plankton equipment and supplies used on board each participating 

 vessel . 



7. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 



Assignment of the OEEGON to EQUALANT I and of the GERONIMO 

 to EQUALANTS II and III; services of a Bureau employee as Inter- 

 national Coordinator; determination of counts for C-l4 (BCF Radio- 

 biological Laboratory) and of displacement volumes of zooplankton 

 samples; scientists; procurement and shipment of all C-l4 and plankton 

 supplies and equipment. Observers and technicians from Kiel University. 

 National Oceanographic Data Center, Commission for Technical Coopera- 

 tion in Africa, Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the ORSTOM 

 Laboratory at Pointe-Noire ., Congo (Brazzaville) participated on 

 board the GERONIMO. 



8. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 



Transmission of routine messages from the GERONIMO through 

 the MSTS KINGSPORT (anchored in Lagos). Subsequent to the period 

 of EQUALANT II., but during the period of operation from the GERONIMO 

 in the Gulf of Guinea., the data (depth, temperature and salinity) 

 from a 1000 meter oceanographic station were sent to National Oceano- 

 graphic Data Center via the Syncom II satellite. These data were 

 subjected to a quality control analyses by National Oceanographic 

 Data Center and the quality control message transmitted to the 



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