NS/IOC/RES - I t em 7 (Continued) 



Reque sts SCOR to undertake the following task: 



Appoint as soon as possible working groups for the 

 purpose of examining, summarizing, and criticising the 

 present oceanographic methods and equipment in common 

 use to determine where these methods or equipment do 

 not provide universally usable, accurate data, or 

 where such data cannot presently be utilized to the 

 utmost, and to recommend by report to the IOC appropriate 

 steps whereby these methods or equipment should be made 

 universally usable. This may in some cases be accomplished 

 by standardization or by intercalibration, or by such 

 methods as these experts may determine. 



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