science and to facilitate its collaborative efforts 

 with other international intergovernmental groups. 

 As an ultimate goal, a separate treaty organization 

 should be established within the United Nations 

 system for marine science and other suitable 

 marine applications. 



III. FUNDING SUPPORT 



In this section, we are concerned with the 

 amount of funding required to carry forward the 

 marine science program recommended in this 

 report. We are concerned with some of the 

 principles that we believe should guide the funding 

 process. 



The panel urges that every Federal agency 

 which is responsible for marine research and 

 maintains in-house capability should, for its own 

 health, vigor, and flexibility as well as for that of 

 all National marine science, strike a reasonable 

 balance between in-house and out-of-house basic 

 research. The ratio of in-house to out-of-house 

 support of basic marine science will, of course, 

 vary from agency to agency. A target of 50 per 

 cent in-house and 50 per cent out-of-house is 

 reasonable for basic research although it is recog- 

 nized that this ratio will be a function of agency 

 needs as well as agency programs. The programs 

 should not be in competition with each other for 

 the same funds. The National Academy of Science 

 Committee on Oceanography in its report Ocean- 

 ography 1966,^ has set forth a rationale which it 

 feels could be adopted by Federal agencies in 

 considering the spUt between "discipline" oriented 

 and "problem" oriented research. This rationale 

 seems worthwhile and it is commended to Federal 

 agencies for their consideration. 



Within the new agency recommended by the 

 Commission there should be an office whose 

 primary responsibility is the funding of institu- 

 tional grants, facility support, and engineering 

 development recommended in this report. 



The specific programs recoitunended in this 

 report clearly indicate that an increase of basic 

 science funding is required to achieve the essential 

 base of knowledge about the ocean environment 

 for presently anticipated and future unanticipated 

 uses. 



Figure 21. Federal oceanograpliic research vessels 



Coast Guard-ocean station vessel 



Bureau of Commercial Fisheries- fisheries 

 research vessel 



Environmental Science Services Administration- 

 U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey oceanographic 

 research vessel 



Oceanography 1966, National Academy of Sciences 

 National Research Council, Pub. No. 1492, 1967. 



U.S. Navy-naval research vessel 



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