International Decade Of Ocean Exploration April 1974 April 1975

Excerpt from International Decade of Ocean Exploration, Vol. 4: Progress Report; April 1974 to April 1975 The International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE) is a long-term, international, cooperative program to improve the use of the ocean and its resources for the benefit of mankind. The IDOE was announced on March 8, 1968, when the President of the United States proposed an historic and unprecedented adventure - an international Decade of Ocean Exploration for the 1970 s.In December 1968 the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the concept of an international decade of ocean exploration to be undertaken within the framework of a long-term programme of research and exploration. In late 1969, the Vice President of the United States, in his capacity as Chairman of the National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development, formally announced the U.S. intention to contribute to the IDOE and assigned responsibility for planning, managing, and funding the U.S. program to the National Science Foundation (NSF). In charging NSF with this responsibility, the Vice President cited proposed goals relative to mans involvement with the oceans in three broad areas. These were: Determine the quality of the ocean environment through accelerated scientific observations of the oceans natural state, evaluate the impact of mans activity on that environment, and establish a scientific basis for corrective actions necessary to preserve the ocean environment; Provide the scientific basis needed to improve environmental forecasting; and Determine the potential resources of the sea floor. An additional program was added during Fiscal Year 1972 to: Provide the basic scientific knowledge of biological processes necessary for the intelligent utilization of living marine resources. One further objective outlined by the Vice President was to: Improve worldwide data exchange through modernizing and standardizing national and international marine data collection, processing, and distribution. In pursuit of this latter objective, the IDOE Office of NSF contracted with the Environmental Data Service (EDS) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to manage the scientific data for IDOE. The agreement included publishing this series of reports. The success of the global IDOE program depends greatly on the extent to which all participating nations contribute their expertise and capabilities. The NSF Office for IDOE has encouraged foreign institutions and researchers to participate in IDOE directly and through the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) at UNESCO. Scientists and institutions in about 45 nations in Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and South America - are now participating, and the level of their involvement in these projects is increasing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Reports list information, data inventories, and scientific reports derived from projects in all IDOE's 4 areas of priority attention: (1) environmental quality, (2) environmental forecasting, (3) seabed assessment, and (4) living resources.

Reports list information, data inventories, and scientific reports derived from projects in all IDOE's 4 areas of priority attention: (1) environmental quality, (2) environmental forecasting, (3) seabed assessment, and (4) living resources.

Excerpt from International Decade of Ocean Exploration, Progress Report, Vol. 3: April 1973 to April 1974 Eds either has the data, information, track charts, and papers described in this report in one of its center archives or knows where they may be obtained. Queries may be addressed to any of the following eds centers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.