OceanusThe Magazine of Marine Science and PolicyVolume 25,
Number 4, Winter 1982/83
Paul R. Ryan,d/torBen McKelway, Assistant Editor
Elizabeth Miller, Editorial Assistant
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Polar Research, West Germany
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Oceanographic Institution
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[number of ocean policy issues
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fty for the FutureMichael C. Healey
[hers,the legal challenge of
in foreign waters could
s the scientific challenge. New)peration, though, should
openIties as well.
>ne Management Program:
[-SharingSave It?
jastalZone Management"
other federal programs,
[hefate of the oftshore oil and
concept.
jagement
rInt is to avoid repetition of past1 fundamental reappraisals
are in
i, Judith M. Capuzzo, Thomaschael A. ChampDossibly the 1990s
will be a
lational and international debatehe ocean to receive wastes
51 The Call of the Arcticby Melvin A. Conant
The Arctic is an example of an area where there is aneed in the
1980s for a strong federal commitment to
develop vast resources in an environmentally
responsible way.
r o Ocean Science and MilitaryUse of the Ocean
by Robert S. Winokur and Rene E. Gonzalez, Jr.Ocean science in
the 1980s will continue to play an
important part in this country's military use of the
ocean.
67 Roger Revelle-Senior Senator of Science
by William H. MacLeish
"He doesn't follow through,I think, by deductive logic.He's more
like Conan Doyle.He assimilates a large bodyof evidence and
theneliminates the unlikely."
71 The Cessationof Commercial Whalingby Francisco J. Palacio
An end to an anachronistic
slaughter is in sight.
75 Womenin Oceanographyby Ben McKelwayA look at some of
theproblems women face in thefield of oceanography.
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OceanusThe Magazine of Marine Science and PolicyVolume 25,
Number 4, Winter 1982/83
Paul R. Ryan .EditorBen McKelway, Assistant Editor
Elizabeth Miller, Editorial Assistant
Lexes H. Coates,/4dve/t/s/ngWilliam H. MacLeish, Consultant
Editorial Advisory Board
Henry Charnock, Professor of Physical Oceanography, University
ofSouthampt
Edward D. Goldberg, Professor of Chemistry, Scripps Institution
ofOceanograp
Gotthilf Hempel, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for
Polar Research, W
