BIWS 



BIWS — Bureau of International Whaling Statis- 

 tics, Sandef jord, Norway. 



BM — Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of tlie 

 Interior, Washington, D.C. 



BMI — Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, 

 Ohio 



BNCOR — British National Committee for Ocean- 

 ic Research, c/o Royal Society, Burlington 

 House, Piccadilly, London, England. 



BSFW — Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, 

 U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wild- 

 life Service, Wasliington, D.C. 



BUDOCKS— Bureau of Yards and Docks, U.S. 

 Navy, Wasliington, D.C. 



BUMINES— -Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department 

 of the Intei'ior, Washington, D.C. 



BUSHIPS— Bureau of Ships, U.S. Navy, Wash- 

 ington, D.C. 



BUWEPS— Bureau of Naval Weapons, U.S. 

 Navy, Washington, D.C. 



CAAS — Ceylon Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, Colombo, Ceylon. 



CALCOFI— /S^ee CCOFI. 



CBI — Chesapeake Bay Institute, Johns Hopkins 

 University, Baltimore, Maryland. 



CBO — Conference of Baltic Oceanographers. 



CCIR — International Radio Consultative Com- 

 mittee, Geneva, Switzerland. 



ceo — Coordinating Committee on Oceanography. 



CCOFI — California Cooperative Oceanic Fish- 

 eries Investigations, La Jolla, California. 



CCOR — Co-ordinating Committee for Oceano- 

 gi-aphic Research, Science Co-operation Divi- 

 sion, CSIR, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. 



CCTA — ^Commission for Technical Co-operation 

 in Africa South of the Sahara, Commission for 

 Scientific Council for Africa, Lagos, Nigeria. 



CERBOM--Centre d'fitudes et de Recherches de 

 Biologie et d'Oceanographie Medicale, Nice, 

 France. 



CERC — Coastal Engineering Research Center 

 (formerly Beach Erosion Board), U.S. Army, 

 Washington, D.C. 



CERN — European Organization for Nuclear Re- 

 search, Geneva, Switzerland. 



CERS — Centre d'fitudes et de Recherches Scien- 



tifiques, Biarritz, France. 

 CFRS— Central Fisheries Research Station, Pu- 



san, Korea. 

 CHS — Canadian Hydrographic Service, Ottawa, 



Ontario, Canada. 

 CIA — Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, 



CIESM — Commission Internationale pour I'Ex- 



ploration Scientifique de la Mediterranee, Monte 



Carlo, Monaco. 

 CIG — Comite International de Geophysique, 



Paris, France. 

 CIOMS — Council for International Organizations 



of Medical Sciences. See lUGG. 



CIPASH — ^Committee on International Programs 

 in Atmospheric Sciences and Hydrology of the 

 NAS/NRC, Washington, D.C. 



CLAO — Consejo Latino- Americano de Oceano- 

 grafia, Montevideo, Uruguay. 



CLARC — ^Consejo Latino-Americano de Radia- 

 cion Cosmica, Universidad Major de San An- 

 dres, LaPaz, Bolivia. 



CMAe — Commission de Meteorologie Aeronau- 

 tique. See WMO. 



CMAS — ^Confederation Mondiale des Activites 

 Subaquatiques (World Underwater Federa- 

 tion) , Paris, France. 



CMM — Commission on Maritime Meteorology. 



CNCOR — Chinese National Committee on Oceanic 

 Research, College of Science, National Taiwan 

 University, Taipei, Taiwan. 



CNFRO — Comite National Frangais de Recherche 

 Oceanique, Paris, France. 



CNMRO — Comite National Malgache de Re- 

 cherche Oceanique, Centre d'Oceanographie et 

 des Peches de Nosy Be, Nosy Be, Malagasy 

 Republic. 



CNO— Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy, 

 Washington, D.C. 



CNPIO — Comissao Nacional Portuguesa para In- 

 vestigagao Oceanografico, Instituto Hidrogra- 

 fico, Lisbon, Portugal. 



CNR — Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche, Italy. 



CNRS — Centre National de la Recherche Scien- 

 tifique, Paris, France. 



CODC — Canadian Oceanographic Data Centre, 

 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 



COEC — Comite Central d'Oceanographie et 



d'fitude des Cotes, Paris, France. 



COFI— ^ee CCOFL 



COMASWFORLANT— Commander Antisubma- 

 rine Warfare Force, Atlantic Fleet, U.S. Naval 

 Base, Norfolk, Virginia. 



COMASWFORPAC— Commander Antisubma- 

 rine Warfare Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet. Pearl 

 Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii. (Also referred to 

 asASDEFORPAC). 



COMEXO — Comite d'Exploitation des Oceans, 

 Paris, France. 



COMOPTEVFOR— Commander Operational 

 Test and Evaluation Force, U.S. Naval Base, 

 Norfolk, Virginia. 



COSPAR — Committee on Space Research (Scien- 

 tific Committee of ICSU) , s'Gravenhage, Neth- 

 erlands. 



CPR — Committee on Polar Research of NAS/ 

 NRC, Washington, D.C. 



CREO — Centre de Recherches et d'fitudes Ooeano- 

 graphiques, Paris, France. 



CRREL-— Cold Regions Research and Engineer- 

 ing Laboratory (formerly SIPRE), Hanover, 

 New Hampshire. 



CSAGI — Comite Special de I'Annee Geophysique 

 Internationale (Special Committee of the 

 ICSU). 



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