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Oceanographers Prepare to Sail
A&M oceanographers are pre
paring to probe the depths of the
Drake Passage in the Southern
Ocean.
Dr. Dale Leipper, head of the
Department of Oceanography and
Meteorology, has announced two
National Science Foundation-spon
sored projects currently underway
to gain physical and biological
data in the 1,000-mile wide ocean
passage that flows between the
tip of South America and the Ant
arctic.
Argentine scientist Luis Capur-
ro, who is a part-time staff mem
ber of the A&M Research Founda
tion, will take surface and deep
current measurements in the
Drake Passage under a $28,.‘100
continuation grant from the NSF.
A study of the primary life-giv
ing food elements—so essential in
the Southern Ocean homewaters
of the whales—will be conducted
by Dr. Sayed Z. El Sayed, assist
ant professor at A&M, aided by
a $26,200 NSF grant.
Dr. Sayed will join with Ca-
purro, who Ls captain of the Ar
gentine Navy vessel, “Capitan
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Canepa,” to conduct the dual-re
search project. The ship is sched
uled to leave its Cape Horn port
at Ushuaia on Deception Island
late in February.
Capurro’s investigations are ex
pected to shed more light on the
deep water circulation between the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans as well
as the flow of Antarctic water that
is drained from that frigid region
to the South American coastlines.
There is no counterpart in the
Northern Hemisphere of this “bot
tleneck” where waters of three
ocean currents flow and counter
flow in such a restricted area.
Surface currents will be measured
by a geomagnetic electrokineto-
graph, while Swallow floats, pre
set to various depths, will radio
deep current movements to the
A&M researchers.
El Sayed and his research as
sistants will study phytoplankton
—minute sea plants drifting in
the sea—and zooplankton—minute
animal life in the ocean. Both
are vital components of the life
food chain for all fish and whale
life in that region.
He Ls especially interested in
the lower elements in the life food
chain. Because the Antarctic
birds, fish and whales depend on
the phytoplankton for food, it is
important to gain some knowledge
concerning the seasonal, geo
graphical and vertical distribution
of the plankton, and the factors
that regulate primary production,
he said.
El Sayed plans to xise both Car
bon 14 and pigment analysis
methods in his studies. Data ga
thered in this study will be inte
grated with other physical and
chemical measurements that col
lectively will tell more about the
variations in geographical distri
bution of phytoplankton of the
Antarctic waters.
“Because of the abundance of
fish living here, due to this pyra
mid of chemicals and plankton, the
region is one of the greatest fish
ing areas of the world,” he added.
A native of Egypt, El Sayed’s
research workers will collect his
phyto and zoo plankton specimens
while Capurro takes measurements
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Articles Published
Three articles about academic
requirements and instrumentation
in oceanography have been pub
lished by A&M oceanographers.
Roy Caul, research oceanogra
pher, is co-author of “Oceano
graphic Requirements vs. Instru
mentation Capabilities” in the
January issue of the I.S.A. Jour
nal published by the Instrument
Society of America. He wrote
the article with J. J. Schule Jr.,
U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
Dr. Louis S. Kornicker, associate
professor of oceanography, dis
cusses “Inland Education of
Oceanography” in the AIBS Bul
letin published in December by the
American Institute of Biological
Sciences.
Seeking Data
Dr. Sayed El Sayed, researcher in the Department of
Oceanography, will join with Capt. Luis Capurro of Argen
tina, another A&M research staff member, in oceanograp
hic research in the Drake Passage. He is pointing to the
passage between the southern tip of South America and
the Antarctic, where their ship will sail this year.
“Oceanography — A Definition
for Academic Use” is the title of
an article by Dr. Dale Leipper,
oceanography and meteorology de
partment head, in the December
quarterly issue of the Transac
tions, American Geophysical Union.
In it he discusses the contributions
of the basic sciences and their in
terrelationship with oceanography,
an “object” science.
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of the current flows. They will
work in cooperation with the Ma
rine Biological Institute and other
institutions in Argentina.
El Sayed expects to complete
some of this research aboard the
Capitan Canepa, but most of his
zooplankton specimens will he
brought to the campus for lab
oratory analysis.
Capurro is the chief hydrog-
rapher for the Argentine Navy, a
graduate of Argentina’s Naval
School, and holds an M.S. degree
in oceanography from the Univer
sity of California’s Scripps Insti
tution. He was a research sci
entist on campus from 19.59-1961.
Degrees in zoology and oceanog
raphy from the University of
Alexandria, Egypt, were earned
by El Sayed before he came to the
United States in 1952 as a Ful-
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