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In Washington, D.C.—

MTC '80 "Decade Of The Oceans"

More Than 150 Technical Papers—More Than 200 Exhibits

This year's Marine Technology

Conference, to be held October 6-8 at the Shoreham Hotel in Wash- ington, D.C., is scheduled to hear

U.S. Transportation Secretary

Neil Goldschmidt as the keynote speaker. Scores of scientists and more than a dozen members of

Congress also are expected to ad- dress the conference. Opening re- marks will be made by Coast

Guard Commandant Adm. John

B. Hayes, chairman of the con- ference and exhibition.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARINE TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION

SHOREHAM HOTEL 5:00 9:00 11:45 1:30 2:00 3:00 3:45

Sunday, October 5, 1980 pm Advance Registration and

Early Bird Reception

Monday, October 6, 1980 am Plenary Session am Chairman's Luncheon pm Concepts/Regulations pm Oceanography I/Water

Quality/Marine Affairs I pm Coffee Break pm Offshore Structures/

Oceanography ll/Oil Pol- lution/Search and Rescue 5:15 pm Exhibitors' Cocktail Party

Tuesday, October 7, 1980 8:30 am Buoy Technology I 9:00 am Manned Vehicles/

Oceanographic Ships/

Marine Affairs II 10:00 am Coffee Break 10:45 am Buoy Technology 11/

Unmanned Vehicles/

Education I/Ocean Energy 12:15 pm Lunch 1:30 pm CZM

Aanderaa Instruments, Inc

Advance Cable & Assembly

Aquafot, Inc

Bell & Howell, CEC Division

Benthos, Inc

Birns Oceanographies

Blake Wire & Cabe

Brantner & Associates, Inc

Canadian Marconi Co

Compass Publications, Inc

Conference Book Service, Inc

Cortland Line Co

Cubic Western Data

Custom Cable Co

David Taylor Naval R&D Center

Del Norte Technology, Inc

Diving Unlimited International Inc

EDO Western Corp

EFCOM

EG&G Environmental Consultants

EG&G Environmental Equipment Div

EG&G Sea-Link Systems

Electro Space Inc

Engineering Services Associates, Inc

Environmental Devices Corp (ENDECO)

EPC Labs, Inc 2:00 pm Ocean Mining I/Education ll/Marine Affairs III 3:00 pm Coffee Break 3:45 pm Undersea Physics/Ocean

Mining Il/Diving/

Materials 6:15 pm No Host Reception 7:00 pm Decade of the Oceans

Banquet

Wednesday, October 8, 1980 8:30 am Geodesy

Fisheries/Marine

Technology I/Marine

Affairs IV

Coffee Break

Cables-Connectors/Sea

Floor Engineering/

Marine Technology 11/

Remote Sensing

President's Award Luncheon

Instrumentation 1/

Radioactive Waste 1/

Vessel Traffic Service I

Coffee Break

Instrumentation 11/

Radioactive Waste 11/

Vessel Traffic Service II 9:00 am 10:00 am 10:45 am 12:15 pm 2:00 pm 3:00 pm 3:45 pm

The conference theme, "Decade of the Oceans," underscores the major role marine technology will play in the 1980s as the United

States and other countries turn to the seas for more effective ways of solving their economic, environmental, and defense needs.

The three-day conference will provide a timely forum for dis- cussing national and international issues related to marine technol- ogy. Technical seminars will deal with ocean energy and food sup- plies, pollution control, undersea vehicles, ocean measurements and instrumentation, and state-of-the- art hardware for the marine environment. More than 200 ex- hibits will showcase the latest marine technology products and services.

The Marine Technology '80 technical program, focusing as it does on the coming decade of the oceans, represents a broad spec- trum of expertise. It encompasses the interests of many disciplines — including the social, political, and physical sciences, as well as engineering — on that 70 percent of the world's surface called the oceans.

The technical sessions arranged for the MT '80 Conference focus attention toward a variety of top- ics. Over 150 scholarly papers, representing significant contribu- tions from universities, govern-

MT 80 EXHIBITORS

Fathom 36, Inc

Flash Technology

Franklin Electric Co, Inc

Gans & Pugh

General Instrument Corp

General Oceanics, Inc

Giannini Petro Marine

Gibbs & Cox, Inc

Grundy Environmental Systems, Inc

HANDAR

Heckerman Corp

Hiab Cranes & Loaders, Inc

Hydrasearch, Inc

Hydro Products, Inc

International Underwater Contractors, Inc

InterOcean Systems, Inc

Interstate Electronics Corp

J-TEC Associates, Inc

Jet Propulsion Lab

KINTEC

Klein Associates, Inc

Lockheed Missile & Space Co, Inc

Lucker Manufacturing Co

Magnavox Corp

MAR, Inc

Marinco

Marine Technology Society

Motorola, Inc (Gov Electronics Div)

National Ocean Industries Association

NAVOCEANO

Neil Brown Instrument Systems, Inc

Nereides

NOAA

NORDA

D. G. O'Brien, Inc

Ocean Applied Research

Ocean Data Equipment

Odom Offshore Surveys, Inc

Optelecom

Osmose Marine Division

Otis Engineering Corp (Special Products Div)

Parkway Fabricators

Photosea, Inc

K. Pollock Associates, Inc

Pollock Research & Design ments, laboratories, and private industries worldwide were re- viewed to develop this year's tech- nical program. The efforts of all concerned have been aimed to- ward insuring that this confer- ence will be the finest and most productive for the oceans com- munity.

Chairman of the Technical Pro- gram is Rear Adm. Alfred P.

Manning Jr., USCG.

Marine Affairs Program

The Marine Affairs Program will provide four panels, of short- er duration than the Technical

Program, to complement the on- going technical sessions and fol- low up on the theme outlined in the Chairman's Message and Ple- nary Session.

Panel I—A Forecast of Emerg- ing Economic Marine Needs—will attempt to gain some consensus on the precise range of national needs having marine dimension that now indicate a significant, emerging demand for advanced marine technology. It will explore how marine technology can be applied more effectively to sup- port national economic (energy, transportation, mining, fisheries, etc.), defense, foreign policy, en- vironmental and other societal needs. It also will highlight cur- rent developments, such as the need to implement anticipated ac- cords from the Law of the Sea

Polyform, USA

Preformed Line Products Co

Raytheon Ocean Systems

Rebikoff Ocean Systems

Remote Ocean Systems

C. A. Richards & Associates, Inc

Schonstedt Instrument Co

Sea Data Corp

Sea Mac

Sercel, Inc

SMATCO

Sonatech, Inc

Southwest Research Institute

Sutter & Co, Inc

Teledyne Hastings Raydist

Telstar Electronics Corp

Tetra Tech, Inc

Tracor, Inc

Tracor Marine, Inc

University of Delaware

University of Southern California

Vector Cable Co

Video Sciences, Inc

Whitehill Manufacturing Corp

Ed Winston Associates

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