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ment Research Council (Great Britain). These negotiations were joined later by 
the Netherlands and Belgium. The expanded European Community (the so-called 
COST states) dealt with this project in their “Action 43“. Furthermore, the co 
operation in the IOC Committee for an Integrated Global Ocean Station System 
(IGOSS) was continued. 
The President of the GHI participated in the 16th General Conference of UNESCO 
(in October 1970 in Paris) where the new statutes of the Intergovernmental 
Oceanographic Commission (IOC) were adopted. He also belonged 
to the iOC group of experts which set up the main points in the Long-Term and 
Expanded Programme of Oceanic Exploration and Research. At the 7th Plenary 
Session which took place from 26 October to 5 November 1971 in Paris, the 72 IOC 
Member States coordinated their cooperative research programmes for the next 
years. The President of the GHI who headed the German delegation and who 
chaired a committee during the meeting was unanimously elected First Vice-Presi 
dent of the IOC. 
The research vessel "Meteor“ participated in several international 
programmes (cf. paragraph C. I.); during the two years under review, the German 
Research Association undertook the cruises 19, 22, 23, and 25, whereas the GHI 
carried out the cruises 20, 21, and 24. On 30 July 1970, the Captain of the "Meteor“, 
E.-W. LEMKE, was awarded the “Verdienstkreuz Erster Klasse des Verdienst- 
ordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland“. 
The main objectives of cruise 19 were: investigations of the nutrient upwelling 
waters off the West African coast; biological studies in the area of the Great 
Meteor Bank and at the bottom of the Iberian Deep Sea; geological-geophysical 
work on the Iberian continental margin. 
The research cruise 20 was conducted in the area between the Faroes and Iceland. 
Physical-oceanographic investigations, studies in the fields of marine chemistry, 
geology, and seismic work were carried out. Besides, the topographic, gravimetric, 
and geomagnetic surveys of the Iceland-Faroes Ridge that had been started in 
1968 were completed. 
Out of the funds of the German Research Association, a modern satellite navigation 
system was purchased for the research vessel "Meteor“. Trials of this system were 
made during cruise 21 in the Mediterranean. On this cruise the GHI continued its 
former studies in the Iberian Deep Sea and the western Mediterranean concerning 
the radioactivity of sea water and the diffusion- or mixing processes, respectively, 
of pollutants. 
The first cruise in 1970, too, (cruise 22) was undertaken in the Mediterranean where 
the geological-morphologic and seismic studies of the earth’s crust were con 
tinued; temporarily, the “Meteor“ worked together with the Italian research vessel 
“Marsili“. 
Cruise 23 was devoted to oceanographic, geologic, and biologic-chemical work 
west of Gibraltar; later on, the distribution of trace elements in the ocean and in 
the adjoining atmosphere was measured on an east-west section in the North 
Atlantic. 
During cruise 24, studies were made concerning possible negative effects that 
the exploding of dynamite charges for seismic investigations might have on the 
vessel’s engine; besides, newly developed measuring instruments were tested. 
Late in 1971, the research vessel “Meteor“ undertook her cruise 25: On the north 
west African continental margin geological and geophysical investigations were 
made with the objective to gain more knowledge on the earth’s history.