. Collected reprints, Essa Institute for Oceanography. Oceanography be used with exciting results. Since the recent report of the Panel on Oceanography of the President's Sci- ence Advisory Committee said little in favor of the systematic surveys, which are so badly needed for our entire shelf area (and there are 850,000 square miles of it), it is questionable if the fed- eral agencies concerned will be able to anticipate any acceleration in this as- pect of shelf exploration. The Environ- mental Science Services Administration recently estimated that only about 402 of the U. S.
. Collected reprints, Essa Institute for Oceanography. Oceanography be used with exciting results. Since the recent report of the Panel on Oceanography of the President's Sci- ence Advisory Committee said little in favor of the systematic surveys, which are so badly needed for our entire shelf area (and there are 850,000 square miles of it), it is questionable if the fed- eral agencies concerned will be able to anticipate any acceleration in this as- pect of shelf exploration. The Environ- mental Science Services Administration recently estimated that only about 402 of the U. S. continental shelf is adequate- ly surveyed to modern standards. Although a l:l-million scale bathy- metric map of the Atlantic continental shelf and slope is a thing of great beauty and does show a good deal of interest- ing information, it is not a map for re- source exploitation or for any real sea- floor development project. A map of the entire United States at this scale would be only about 16 feet wideâhardly an adequate scale for the development of our land area. Promising outlook The next five years, however, can see considerable improvement in what is now a sad situation with respect to knowledge of our offshore and shelf en- vironment. If growing interest in our shelf can be translated into the neces- sary support for the work that needs to be done, and if U. S. industry con- tinues its present rate of increasing ac- tivity in the shelf areas, the next five years could see all of the following; â A small prototype buoy network on the shelf, which measures and teleme- ters back to shore in real time both oceanographic and meteorological data. â An accelerated program of systemat- ic surveys of the shelf covering bottom structure, and a zoogeographic survey programâplus such surveys of the time- dependent physical properties that are needed to supplement the work of the buoy network. â A scattering of special purpose sea-. floor laboratories to accommodate eight or
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