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MARINE SCIENCE SYIVLPOSIUM

A symposium on marine science will be held at the Royal

Australian._Naval College, ' Jervis Bay, on Friday (27/9).

It has been arranged in conjunction with the University of N.S..W. and the Wollongong University College.

About 30 scientists from the university, the CSIRO, the Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights and the RAN will attend.

Among speakers will be Mr. Bruce Hamon, in charge of marine physics for the CSIRO who will talk on the East Australian Current. Last year, Mr. Hamon, working with the RAN, discovered large eddies in the Pacific Ocean off the east coast of Australia.

The RAN's Hydrographer, Capt. A.H. Co.oper, will talk on Operation Navadao, a three-year survey of the North Atlantic in which he commanded the British hydrographic ship, HMS VIDAL.

Professor V.T. Buchwald, head of the Mathematics Department at the University of N.S.V. will present a paper on the mathematical aspects of ocean waves and Mr. D.J. Clarke, a lecturer at Wollongong University College, will discuss civil engineering in harbour

design.

0Y,.,"'^.. "i 'L, G e t h Sc pteiiber, 1968

