October 1978 VOLUME 3 NUMBER 4 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

SUMMARY
International workshop on ocean instrumentation 81
Participants--International workshop on ocean instrumentation 88

PAPERS
Peter Arnold Offshore geotechnical instrumentation 92
Tore Audunson, Odd Arvid Olsen, and Hans Jørgen Sætre On the measurements and analysis of ocean waves and currents on the Norwegian continental shelf 96
Willard N. Bascom Quantifying man's influence on coastal waters 112
John H. Cawley Improved ocean measurement capabilities using advanced engineering technology 117
T. Ramanuja Chari Instrumentation problems related to determining geotechnical properties of ocean sediments 120
R. R. Colwell and Paul S. Tabor Instrumentation needs for ocean biology 128
Michael J. Cruickshank Measuring the environmental effect of marine mining 135
R. E. Haring, J. M. Hulett, B. K. Pearce, and G. M. Pomonik Improved platform design 136
Stanislaw R. Massel Needs for oceanographic data to determine loads on coastal and offshore structures 137
Per Myrvang The processing of E- and P-data from the Norwegian continental shelf 146
Masakazu Ozaki and Satoshi Hayashi Earthquake resistant design of offshore building structures 152
Maurice E. Ringenbach Communication of creditable measured data 163
Duane C. Simpson, Michael F. Devine, Catherine E. Warsh, Edward R. Meyer, Thomas P. O'Connor, and P. Kilho Park Ocean-dumping research and monitoring: Strategies and tools 165
Philip N. Storrs and Luciano Meiorin Information reliability in marine waste disposal studies 172

COMMUNICATIONS
Umesh Dayal Recent trends in underwater in-situ soil testing 176
Bernard Le Méhauté Marine sensors for open sea berth terminals 186
Allan George Parker Instrumentation--All at sea 191
Denis K. Warne Ocean instrumentation by satellite 200