port implies the provision of funds on a long-term 

 basis only generally constrained for broad program 

 purposes. Institutional support should also enable 

 research laboratories to provide their scientists 

 operating facilities such as ships or shore-based 

 laboratories on a consistent basis. 



To meet the emerging National needs for 

 adequate facilities by all scientists engaged in basic 

 marine research, the Nation should designate a 

 small group of laboratories— which should include 

 but not be restricted to those which today provide 

 the national leadership— as "university-National 

 laboratories." They should be distributed geo- 

 graphically to cover different parts of the ocean 

 efficiently. They should be provided with ade- 

 quate facilities for undertaking worldwide deep 

 ocean programs in basic science. These laboratories 

 should be accorded adequate institutional support 

 in return for which they would commit themselves 

 and their facilities to serve the needs of scientists 

 and scientific groups affiliated with other organiza- 

 tions. 



There is apparently nothing exactly analogous 

 to what we are suggesting in the array of Federal- 

 academic partnerships, although one can find parts 

 of this concept in the arrangements of such 

 institutions as Brookhaven National Laboratory of 



the Atomic Energy Conmiission and the National 

 Center for Atmospheric Research of the National 

 Science Foundation. 



The direct management of these laboratories 

 should be assigned to universities, which would 

 make formal provision for the advice and assist- 

 ance of other academic institutions not designated 

 as university national laboratories in accordance 

 with guidehnes set forth by the Federal Govern- 

 ment. 



Without prejudging the exact nature of these 

 arrangements, it is suggested that insofar as pos- 

 sible these National laboratories should not be 

 started afresh, but should build upon existing 

 facilities in the academic community. The facilities 

 and programs of these university-National labora- 

 tories need not be identical. Although the exact 

 nature of the Federal-urriversity partnership may 

 vary from institution to institution, it is necessary 

 that the university be an active partner. There 

 should be some university commitment for con- 

 tinuing support and activity in the marine sciences. 

 The university must be more than a manager; it 

 must have some stake in the program. University- 

 National laboratories must make some formal 

 provision for providing for outside investigators. In 

 return for being furnished the facilities which will 



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