Appendices 



Appendix 1: NSF/IDOE Effects of Pollutants on Marine Organisms 

 Program Executive Committee 



The group at the Sidney Workshop recognized that the NSF/IDOE 

 Effects Program needed an additional level of scientific management. 

 The Program has consisted of individuals with separate research 

 grants w^orking tow^ard the program goal with informal contact with 

 each other, but under the overall management of IDOE. It is pro- 

 posed to organize the scientists into a formal management unit fol- 

 lowing the same pattern that the NSF/IDOE Pollutant Transfer Pro- 

 gram has used. 



Toward this end the participants in the Workshop recommended 

 that Program Executive Committee be set up. The structure and func- 

 tion of the Executive Committee would be: 



1 . To provide scientific guidance to the NSF/IDOE Office with re- 

 spect to the Effects of Pollutants on Marine Organisms Program, with 

 particular attention to the development of comprehensive long-range 

 plans for accomplishing the objectives of this program and the iden- 

 tification of weaknesses as they develop in the existing program. 



2. To initiate and coordinate intercalibration, sample exchange, and 

 joint experiments among the Effects Program participants. 



3. To organize summer institutes, special workshops, the production 

 of special standards and other similar cooperative efforts to further 

 the goals of the Effects Program. 



4. To cooperate with the NSF/IDOE Environmental Quality Pro- 

 gram Manager in the preparation and presentation of the various re- 

 quired reports of the Program to the National Science Foundation. 



5. To simulate and solicit strong research proposals relevant to the 

 long-range plan and goals of the Program and to comment on the ap- 

 plicability of submitted proposals to the long-range plan and goals. 



6. To establish panels to assist in the development of programs in 

 any particular areas of need, such as culture techniques, intercalibra- 

 tion, sampling techniques, data processing, physiological parameters, 

 etc. 



7. To establish an effective system of communication of scientific 

 results among Program participants, the scientific community in gen- 

 eral, and the public. 



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