Proceedings of MTS/IEEE Oceans'77 Conference

Los Angeles BonaventureOctober 17-18-19, 1977

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VOLUME 1

Buoy systems
Remote ocean environmental data acquisition,  L. Livingston, R. Roten, G. Haas, and R. Mueller,  pp. 1-10
Design of moored buoy system in shallow waters,  N. T. Tsai,  pp. 11-16
An expendable telemetry buoy for coastal oceanography,  Rodney G. Fredericks, Wm. J. Wiseman Jr., and William T. Whelan,  pp. 17-21
A buoy mounted barometric pressure instrument for wave height measurement,  John F. Holmes and Ronald T. Miles,  pp. 22-25
Microprocessors for ocean related matters
Oceanographic applications of microcomputers--A survey,  William J. Dejka,  pp. 26-31
A microprocessor-based oceanographic particle data collection system,  John C. Brown,  pp. 32-35
Microcomputer-assisted flow-through ASV system,  Cesar Clavell Jr.,  pp. 36-42
The Pacific basin community
Palau: Native paradise or petroleum superport?,  Dorothy F. Soule,  pp. 43-48
Kindergarten to grade 14 programs: Environmental awareness to specific ocean studies
The delaware approach to coastal/oceanic awareness studies K-12,  Carolyn A. Thoroughgood and Robert W. Stegner,  pp. 49-52
Undersea vehicles I
Dolphin - Flexibility for submarine research and development,  George H. Verd and Glen L. Hunsaker,  pp. 53-57
Floating industrial complexes
Design & construction of a platform - Mounted pulp plant for Brazil,  Takeshi Ishibashi,  pp. 58-69
Concrete LPG storage barge,  C. E. Wakefield Jr.,  pp. 70-71
Marine industrial complexes and facilities, trends and future considerations,  Emmanuel Castrinakis and Richard S. Hollyer,  pp. 72-77
Barge-mounted offshore LNG liquefaction plants,  A. Person,  pp. 78-83
Satellite imagery data acquisition, processing and availability
Survey of NOAA satellite data availability from environmental data service,  Gregory W. Hunolt,  pp. 84-87
Landsat data availability from the eros data center and status of future plans,  R. A. Pohl and G. G. Metz,  pp. 88-91
Applications of underwater acoustics in the ocean
Quantitative acoustics near the sea floor,  Robert C. Tyce,  pp. 92-97
Specialized drive waveforms for the parametric acoustic source,  W. L. Konrad and M. B. Moffett,  pp. 98-101
Sonar imaging with the synthetic aperture technique,  Ronald G. Hughes,  pp. 102-106
Continuing education: Non-traditional ways of skill improvement and educational upgrading
"Oceans: Our continuing frontier" A national oceanic educational program prepared by courses by newspaper,  George A. Colburn,  pp. 107-109
Project ocean search: It's not too late,  Jean-Michel Cousteau,  pp. 110-112
International training programs: The base for technology transfer,  John D. Costlow Jr. and Michael P. Bradley,  pp. 113-116
Undersea vehicles II
The SCARAB undersea vehicle system,  Deam W. Given,  pp. 117-118
Development of an electronic control system for remote controlled underwater vehicles,  J. P. Tierney and R. A. Walrod,  pp. 119-124
A remote, unmanned dewatering system for recovery of the solid rocket boosters of the space shuttle program,  A. J. Schlosser,  pp. 125-129
The world's largest submersible,  K. L. Krug and H. J. Smith,  pp. 130-132
Port operations
Design and construction of the first variable orientation offshore bulk terminal,  Paul Soros and Bela Koman,  pp. 133-139
The coast guard's deepwater port research and development program,  Richard G. Jones,  pp. 140-142
VLCC lightering operations off the coast of Southern California,  John T. Kopeck,  pp. 143-146
Port planning to minimize risk to hazardous material vessel movement,  John H. Lancaster,  pp. 147-152
Satellite imagery date applications
Recent progress in earth satellite data applied to marine activities,  E. Paul McClain,  pp. 153-160
Detection and interpretation of ocean roughness variations across the gulf stream inferred from radar cross section observations,  D. E. Weissman and T. W. Thompson,  pp. 161-170
Monitoring the effects of gulf stream meanders and eddys on the New England fishing grounds,  J. Lockwood Chamberlin,  pp. 171-177
Underwater acoustics II
Effectiveness of the distributed sensor concept for underwater detection,  D. G. Polvani,  pp. 178-183
Probable origin of measured supertanker radiated noise spectra,  John Cybulski,  pp. 184-191
Radiated noise measurements from two unusual sources,  P. Becker and E. A. Pence,  pp. 192-197
Diving technology and operations
Closed circuit hot water diver heating systems,  J. G. English,  pp. 198-201
Design considerations for a computer controlled platform to support working divers,  A. Seireg and E. Kassem,  pp. 202-206
Diving second/stage demand regulator,  Said S. Hilal and Simon de Soto,  pp. 207-214
Underwater optics I
Optical velocimeters for use in seawater,  W. J. Stachnik and W. T. Mayo Jr.,  pp. 215-219
An overview of the basic parameters controlling underwater visibility,  S. Q. Duntley,  pp. 220-222
State of the art in underwater acoustic imaging,  Jerry L. Sutton,  pp. 223-228
Education and manpower
The government's responsibility in education,  Robert B. Abel,  pp. 229-232
Zones of national jurisdiction
The fishery conservation and management act of 1976 - A Washington perspective,  James S. Gracey,  pp. 233-236
The enforcement of the fishery conservation and management act of 1976,  Robert T. Morhard,  pp. 237-241
Multinational corporations, nation-states and ocean resource management: The impact of a 200-mile economic zone,  Chennat Gopalakrishnan,  pp. 242-245
U.S. coastal fishery interests in domestic and international politics,  Mark Meirowitz,  pp. 246-253
University programs in marine studies
Voyages into ocean space: A view from the humanities,  Richard Astro,  pp. 254-257
Marine science equation--Some inequities,  Alyn C. Duxbury,  pp. 258-259
Ocean engineering at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and the California State University, Long Beach,  Nathan Friedland, James A. McAllister, John C. McMillan, and L. Boyd Kendall,  pp. 260-265
Oceanographic education, where now?,  Dale F. Leipper,  pp. 266-269
Environmental effects on the marine biota
Further studies on the use of heat treatment to control biofouling in seawater cooling systems,  John W. Graham, Jay N. Stock, and Peter H. Benson,  pp. 270-275
Ocean dumping -- Research and monitoring of ocean disposal effects,  Philip M. Cohen,  pp. 276-279
Techniques for measuring the effects of nuclear power plants on local fish,  William C. Acker,  pp. 280-281
Cables and connectors I
AmercageTM E-M cables offer increased life and reliability,  Albert G. Berian and Edward M. Felkel,  pp. 282-289
Correlation of makeup wire fracture modes and mechanical properties with fatigue life of large diameter cables,  Leonard Moskowitz,  pp. 290-295
Life evaluation of a 35 KV submarine power cable in a continuous flexing environment,  Charles A. Pieroni and Bruce W. Fellows,  pp. 296-303
Bend limiters improve cable m performance,  Robert L. Swart,  pp. 304-312
Strength and durability characteristics of ropes and cables from Kevlar® aramid fibers,  M. H. Horn, P. G. Riewald, and C. H. Zweben,  pp. 313-324
Automated measurement techniques
Preserving amplitude in high-resolution marine geophysical profiles,  Donald J. Krotser,  pp. 325-332
A vertical automatic profiling system,  Peter M. Ward-Whate,  pp. 333-337
Remotely controlled profiling system for measurements in shallow water,  Habil U. Petersohn, G. Pries, and P. Diekmann,  pp. 338-342
A high-resolution wave-sensor array for measuring wave directional-spectra in the nearshore zone,  C. Y. Der and A. S. Watson,  pp. 343-352
Status of deep ocean mining programs
Status of the deep ocean mining program,  Conrad G. Welling,  pp. 353-354
Technical training of marine manpower
Education and training needs of the maritime industry 1977,  Arthur McIntyre,  pp. 355-360
Technical training of marine manpower: A course for underwater scientists,  Robert R. Given,  pp. 361-364

VOLUME 2

Technical training of marine manpower
A method for determining regional marine manpower,  Kenneth Stibolt,  pp. 365-373
Tanker operations
Tankers, the coast guard and public policy,  Jonathan C. Ide,  pp. 374-378
Oil/water separator for deballasting applications,  John Mittleman and Vincent DiNenna,  pp. 379-384
Valdez narrows tanker simulations,  William M. Devlin,  pp. 385-388
Cables and connectors II
Underwater electrical cable terminations,  Omer E. Lamborn,  pp. 389-391
Development of field installable terminations for cables with aramid strength members,  William F. Stange and William E. Green,  pp. 392-400
Underwater electrical cable and connector seals: Some in-house design options, commercial options, and performance/failure analyses,  C. J. Sandwith, J. G. Paradis, and J. B. Morrison,  pp. 401-406
Electronics for multiple sensor/control element cabled systems,  E. G. Nielsen, W. B. Watson, and C. E. Nelson,  pp. 407-412
Current efforts toward improved reliability in instrumentation
SEATRAK data processor--A surface data reduction system,  Rick O'Hara,  pp. 413-417
International standards for oceanographic instrumentation,  Jack Jaeger,  pp. 418-421
How good are your marine data?,  Bernard P. Polanin, R. New, and M. E. Ringenbach,  pp. 422-423
Performance assessment of advanced ocean current sensors,  Gerald F. Appell,  p. 424
Distributed signal processing
Reliability and fault recovery in distributed processing,  Robert M. Shapiro and Robert E. Millstein,  pp. 425-429
Marine water quality
A technique for measuring industrial waste dispersion resulting from ocean dumping,  D. Frye, G. Williams, and A. Davison,  pp. 430-434
A new technique for estimating the long-term concentration of conservative substances discharged into the ocean,  J. Kroll, N. Papageorgis, and K. Konrad,  pp. 435-441
Thermal-plume measurement systems for great lake coastal waters,  Lawrence S. Van Loon, Arthur A. Frigo, and Robert A. Paddock,  pp. 442-447
Oil spill recovery with magnetically retrievable sorbents preliminary performance report of MAG-1 a 24-foot magnetic type recovery vessel for light oils,  Joseph E. Turbeville,  pp. 448-453
Underwater optics systems
Integrating optics and sonar for a deeply towed vehicle,  Robert C. Tyce and D. E. Boegeman,  pp. 454-459
Use of clear water displacement columns for photography in muddy water,  Glen Brewer and Almon Jones,  pp. 460-462
Deep seabed mining
Potential regimes for deep seabed mining,  Northcutt Ely,  pp. 463-467
Industry program for marine education and manpower
Industry programs for marine education and manpower,  Glen H. Egstrom,  pp. 468-470
Educating for careers in the merchant marine,  Hazel P. Brown,  pp. 471-473
Communication is critical,  Jack B. Lindsey,  pp. 474-475
Bounce and saturation diving: Work for the trained specialist,  James T. Joiner,  pp. 476-483
Navigation and control system
The omega radionavigation system comes to the pacific ocean area,  David T. Haislip and David C. Scull,  pp. 484-492
Loran-C: Yesterday, today & tomorrow,  Cyrus E. Potts,  pp. 493-497
Postition location system for ocean mining,  William R. Wilson,  pp. 498-504
U.S. Coast Guard's command display and control system,  Siebert Feldman,  pp. 505-509
TWOWAY: A position and orientation measurement system,  Jack Kuipers,  pp. 510-522
Instrumentation for biological measurements
The use of 120 kHz sonar in Zooplankton studies,  D. D. Sameoto and S. Paulowich,  pp. 523-528
Zooplankton measurements using a conductance cell,  T. M. Dauphinee,  pp. 529-533
The use of optical attenuance meters for biological measurements,  Werner Kroebel,  pp. 534-540
In situ chlorophyll and plankton measurements with the batfish vehicle,  A. W. Herman,  pp. 541-545
Environmental aspects of offshore petroleum development
Environmental aspects of drilling fluid and drill cuttings disposal,  Richard P. Zingula,  pp. 546-549
Effects of produced waters on the marine enviroment,  Fred T. Weiss, C. B. Koons, and C. D. McAuliffe,  pp. 550-559
Fate of petroleum hydrocarbons in marine animals,  Richard F. Lee,  pp. 560-563
Weathering of spilled oil and methods of accelerating,  Clayton D. McAuliffe,  pp. 564-573
Ocean thermal energy conversion
Interpretation of oceanographic data for the design of ocean thermal energy conversion plants,  Lloyd F. Lewis and James W. Mavor Jr.,  pp. 574-580
OTEC - An emerging program of significance to the marine community,  Carl E. Rudiger Jr. and Lewis Odell Smith,  pp. 581-587
Ocean thermal energy conversion heat exchanger biofouling - strategies of control,  P. C. Springer,  pp. 588-591
High-capacity, deep-water, free-fall anchor,  J. M. Atturio and P. J. Valent,  pp. 592-596
Commercial education and manpower programs: Teaching and services
Science is not enough,  Richard C. Murphy,  pp. 597-598
Safety aspects of ship operations
LNG/LPG marine transportation and terminal safety,  Edward H. Bonekemper III,  pp. 599-603
Trans-Alaska oil pipeline system (TAPS) oil movement-Marine safety considerations of movement by sea,  William R. Riedel,  pp. 604-606
International decades of oceanographic exploration (IDOE)
SOFAR floats for POLYMODE,  Douglas C. Webb,  pp. 607-611
CEPEX hardware: (Now and in the future),  John N. Case,  pp. 612-615
Free vehicle instrumentation for the in situ measurement of processes controlling the formation of deep-sea ferromanganese nodules,  R. F. Weiss, O. H. Kirsten, and R. Ackermann,  pp. 616-619
Offshore petroleum technology
Future program of ocean research drilling use of GLOMAR EXPLORER,  Frank C. MacTernan,  pp. 620-625
Remote control systems for the grondin subsea oil well production station,  Dennis Mosher,  pp. 626-631
In-situ verification of current meter data
Problems in measuring currents near the ocean surface,  James R. McCullough,  pp. 632-638
Current measurement by lagrangian drifting buoys - Problems and potential,  William A. Vachon,  pp. 639-645
Current measurements offshore Humboldt Bay California for proposed ocean outfall,  R. B. Dornhelm,  pp. 646-652
Review of intercomparisons of moored current measurements,  David Halpern,  pp. 653-658
Poster session papers
The problems of analysis of trace elements in saline waters,  Elaine Moore and James Gendron,  pp. 659-660
Determination of the physical and chemical characteristics of seawater in the golf of fos and canal caronte,  John J. Karpeck,  pp. 661-666
An automated profiling water quality sensing system,  John H. Hinchman,  pp. 667-671
The most technical document information system,  Art Arriola and Dan Solarek,  pp. 672-676
U.S. Coast Guard utilization of remote sensing techniques for ocean surveillance,  J. R. White, D. R. Freezer, and R. R. Vollmers,  pp. 677-680
Deep ocean inflatable pipe,  Allan L. James and J. Grant Blackington,  pp. 681-686
Physical factors affecting the siting of dredged material islands,  Christopher C. Mathewson and Robert M. McHam,  pp. 687-692
Remote multispectral imaging for nearshore bathymetry,  Calvn B. Koesy and Michael T. Cooper,  pp. 693-696
Computation of drag force acting on fishing nets,  M. Krishnamurthy,  pp. 697-701
From feasibility study to construction: A dredged material wildlife reserve in San Diego Bay, California ,  Tomas E. Firle and David D. Smith,  pp. 702-711
Measurement of deep ocean currents using recording inclinometers,  Scott C. Daubin, Douglas R. Scally, and Robert F. Tusting,  pp. 712-717
Magnetic loops as submarine detectors,  D. G. Polvani,  pp. 718-723
The graphic presentation of current meter data,  C. Ford McFarlane,  pp. 724-728
Post conference sessions in Hawaii
Applications of pressure tolerant electronics,  Jack E. Holzschuh,  pp. 729-734
Hawaii and the manganese nodule industry,  Q. Dick Stephen-Hassard and Eugene M. Grabbe,  pp. 735-737
Humpback whales in Hawaii population & distribution,  Edward W. Shallenberger,  pp. 738-744
Distributed signal processing
Solving signal processing algorithms with a multi-microprocessor network,  Richard R. Ramseyer, Salvatore D. Morgera, and Andries van Dam,  pp. 745-750
Distributed Signal Processing
DMSP block 5D data acquisition and processing,  D. R. McConathy and W. D. Meyer,  p. 753
The SEASAT-A data processing and distribution,  H. E. Nicholson, W. H. Maxwell, and J. A. Dunne,  pp. 754-760
Application of a diver equivalent manipulator to a deepwater work system,  Walter E. Gray and Donald R. Wilt,  pp. 761-765
Vessel traffic service - A status report,  Robert C. McFarland,  pp. 766-770
Acoustic position measurement systems,  Arthur Ayres,  pp. 771-774
LNG/LPG ship safety: Lessons from the past,  Julius Feldman, John M. Cece, and Michael W. Taylor,  pp. 775-784