NAVOCEANO 



IPFC — Indo-Pacific Fisheries Council, Bangkok, 

 Thailand. 



IPHC — International Pacific Halibut Commis- 

 sion, Seattle, Washington. 



IPMM — Institut des Peches Maritimes du Maroc, 

 Casablanca, Morocco. 



IPSFC — International Pacific Salmon Fisheries 

 Commission, Vancouver, British Columbia, 

 Canada. 



IRE — Institute of Radio Engineers. See IEEE. 



ISA — Instrument Society of America, Pittsburgh, 

 Pennsylvania. 



ISBB — International Society of Bioclimatology 

 and Biometeorology, Leiden, Netherlands. 



ISO — International Organization for Standardi- 

 sation, Geneva, Switzerland. 



ISTPM — Institut Scientifique et Technique des 

 Peches Maritimes, Paris, France. 



ITIC — International Tsunami Information Cen- 

 ter, Honolulu, Hawaii. 



ITTC — Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commis- 

 sion, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La 

 JoUa, California. 



ITU — International Telecommunication LTnion, 

 Geneva, Switzerland. 



lUB— International Union of Biochemistry, Lon- 

 don, England. 



lUBS — ^International Union of Biological Sci- 

 ences, University of California, Davis, Cali- 

 fornia. 



lUCN — International Union for the Conserva- 

 tion of Nature and Natural Resources, Brussels, 

 Belgium. 



lUCr — International Union of Crystallography, 

 Groningen, Netherlands. 



lUGCr^International Union of Geodesy and Geo- 

 physics, Paris, France. 



lUGS — International Union of Geological Sci- 

 ences, Hellerup, Denmark. 



lUHPS— International Union of the History and 

 Philosophy of Science, Paris, France. 



lUPAC — International Union of Pure and Ap- 

 plied Chemistry, Basel, Switzerland. 



lUPAP — International Union of Pure and Ap- 

 plied Physics, Paris, France. 



lUPS — International Union of Physiological Sci- 

 ences, University of Rochester, Rochester, New 

 York. 



lUTAM — International Union of Theoretical and 

 Applied Mechanics, Chatillon-sous-Bagneux, 

 France. 



lUWDS — International Ursigram and World 

 Days Service (UNESCO), Utrecht, Nether- 

 lands. 



IWC — International Whaling Commission, Lon- 

 don, England. 



JCAM — Joint Commission on Atomic Masses. 



J CAR — Joint Commission on Applied Radio- 

 activity (lUPAC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France. 



JMA — Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Ja- 

 pan. 



KASPNIRO — Caspian Institute of Marine Fish- 

 eries and Oceanography, Astrakhan, U.S.S.R. 



KNMI — Koninklijk Nederlands, Meteorologisch 

 Instituut, De Bilt, Netherlands. 



LASIL — Land-and-Sea Interaction Laboratory 



(USC&GS), Norfolk, Virginia. 

 LGO — Lamont Geological Observatory, Columbia 



University, Palisades, New York. 



MAMBO— Mediterranean Association for Marine 

 Biology and Oceanology, Valletta, Malta. 



MARAD — U.S. Maritime Administration, Wash- 

 ington, D.C. 



MARINOSTAT— Hopkins Marine Station, Pa- 

 cific Grove, California. 



MBA — Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, 

 England. 



MBL — Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods 

 Hole, Massachusetts. 



WQ\.—See USNMDL. 



MESCO— Middle East Science Cooperation Of- 

 fice, Cairo, Egypt. 



MIL-E-CON — Military Electronic Conference 

 (Sponsored by IRE). 



MIR — Morski Instytut Rybacki, Gdynia, Poland. 



MLRG — Marine Life Research Group, Scripps In- 

 stitution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California. 



MO — Meteorological Office, Bracknell, England. 



MOHOLE — Mohorovicic Discontinuity Hole, 

 NAS/NRC, Washington, D.C. 



MPL — Marine Physics Laboratory, Scripps Insti- 

 tution of Oceanography, San Diego, California. 



MRI — Meteorological Research Institute, Tokyo, 

 Japan. 



MSA — Maritime Safety Agency, Tokyo, Japan. 



MSC — Marine Science Center, Lehigh University, 

 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 



MSTS— Military Sea Transport Service, U.S. 

 Navy, Washington, D.C. 



MTS — Marine Technology Society, Washington, 

 D.C. 



NADC — Naval Air Development Center, U.S. 

 Navy, Johns^dlle, Pennsylvania. 



NAEC — Naval Air Engineering Center, U.S. 

 Na\'y, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



NAS — National Academy of Sciences, Washing- 

 ton, D.C. 



NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Admin- 

 istration, Washington, D.C. 



NAS CAS — Committee on Atmospheric Sciences 

 (NAS/NRC), Washington, D.C. 



NASCO — National Academy of Sciences, Com- 

 mittee on Oceanography, Wasliington, D.C. 



NASL — Naval Applied Science Laboratory, U.S. 

 Navy, Brooklyn, New York. 



NAS/NRC — National Academy of Sciences/Na- 

 tional Research Council, Washington, D.C. 



NAVOCEANO— U.S. Naval Oceanographic Of- 

 fice, Washington, D.C. 



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