“Naval Oceanography: Start of the Next Millennium”

Summary form only given, substantially as follows. On the eve of the 20th Century, the United States was in the midst of a physical science renaissance as internationally renowned scientists measured and analyzed the natural world, and explorers stretched its geographic boundaries to yield new frontiers for science. Naval Oceanography entered the 20th Century with chronometers, sextants, lead lines, log books, logarithm tables and pilot charts. On the eve of the 21st Century, Naval Oceanography is equipped with precise time and time interval, the Global Positioning System, multi-beam echosounder systems, global data warehouses, supercomputing, and softcopy products transmitted globally. The paper, “Naval Oceanography: Start of the Next Millennium”, describes the course upon which the United States Navy is embarked at the outset of the 21st Century to meet the continuing challenge of ensuring Navy´s ability to fight effectively under all weather or ocean conditions