The International Decade of Ocean Exploration: A Mid-Term Review. A Report for the Director of the National Science Foundation by the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere, August 29, 1975

摘要

The U.S. program for the IDOE, with which this report is concerned, has concentrated its effort in four scientific areas: environmental quality, which primarily involves chemical and biological aspects of the marine environment and marine pollution; environmental forecasting, which is concerned with oceanic motions and with interactions between ocean and the atmosphere; seabed assessment, which is concerned with the geology and geophysics of the sea floor and the processes of plate tectonics and metallogenesis; and living resources, which is concerned with marine ecosystems and the biological productivity of the oceans.