The National Science Foundation, which supports research throxigh 

 grants made as the result of applications proposing specific research 

 projects, encouraged United States research institutions to submit 

 proposals for research connected with the IIOE, and took steps to 

 augment its available research funds by the inclusion of a special 

 item for the IIOE, commencing with its Fiscal Year 1962 biuiget. 



Other Federal agencies have been less successful in obtaining the 

 additional funding required to pennit them to operate themselves in the 

 Indian Ocean or to support research there in fields related to their 

 specific missions, and in some cases the National Science Foundation 

 has transferred fimds to enable these agencies to carry out urgent 

 programs related to the IIOE, 



The follovfing tabulation, extracted from the 19^3 National Oceajio- 

 graphic Program, prepared by the Interagency Committee on Oceanograplqr 

 of the Federal Council of Science and Technology, (with the additioii of 

 information from the U, S, Weather Bvireau) summarizes planned Federal 

 support of the U, S, participation in the IIOE through Fiscal Year 1963s 



THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS 



Fiscal Year 1961 1962 1963 



USN 760 580 1,300 



NSF - 1,500 4,000 



Bur.Com.Fish, _ _ 70 



Weather Bureau - - 792 



SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM BY DISCIPLINES 



The United States program for the IIOE, in accordance with the 

 original stated aims of the expedition, is devoted to the scientific 

 examination of four great areas of Interest in the Indian Ocean, The 

 first of these concerns itself with the problems of why there is an 

 ocean basin in the first place | what are the forces that have shaped 

 and are continuing to shape the basinj what are the resemblances 

 between this piece of the earth's crust and any other j and how is the 

 basin of the Indian Ocean dissimilar from other ocean basins? The 

 techniques used in attempting to answer these questions are primarily 

 geophysical and geological, and they have been or will be enqjloyed on 

 expeditions sent out by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Lament 

 Geological Observatory, Stanford University, and Woods Hole Oceano- 

 graphic Institution. 



The second broad area of investigation involves the chemical and 

 physical description of the waters of the* Indian Ocean, and the 

 study of their motions. The techniques used involve sampling of the 

 waters in predetermined patterns, with respect both to horizontal 

 distribution and to vertical spacing of the saiq)les| concurrent precise 

 measxirements of vreiter teiqjerature; subsequent chemical and isotopic 

 analyses of the water samples j and determination of current flow at 



