Executive Summary 



ACKNOWLEDGEMENT* 



The concepts and techniques outlined in this presentation have been prepared with the 

 assistance of an international group of scientists: 



Joan Albaiges, Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo, C. S. I. C. Spain 



Victor Anderlini, University of Victoria, New Zealand 



Neil Andersen, National Science Foundation, USA 



John E. Brodie, James Cook University, Australia 



Kathryn Bums, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Bermuda 



John Calder, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA 



Rodger Dawson, University of Maryland, USA 



Jan C. Duinker, Universitat Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany 



John W. Farrington, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA 



Scott Fowler, IAEA International Laboratory of Marine Radioactivity, Monaco 



Edward D. Goldberg, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 



Arne Jernelov, Swedish Water and Air Pollution Research Lab, Sweden 



Robert Kagi, University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia 



Lawrence D. Mee, IAEA International Laboratory of Marine Radioactivity, Monaco 



Michael N. Moore, Institute for Marine Environmental Research, England 



Andrew Robertson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA 



Rolf Schneider, IAEA International Laboratory of Marine Radioactivity, Monaco 



Eric Schneider, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA 



A number of people too numerous to list have contributed their time and comments to various aspects of this program. 

 Celia Erlinda F. Orano-Dawson provided assistance in the production of the original 1987 report. Bruce W. Tripp and John 

 W. Farrington, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, assisted by Olimpia McCall, edited the 1992 edition. Printing of 

 this report is sponsored by NOAA National Sea Grant College Program Office, Department of Commerce, under Grant No. 

 NA90-AA-D-SG480, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant Project No. E/R-9-PD. The U.S. Government is 

 authorized to produce and distribute reprints for governmental purposes notwithstanding any copy right notation that may 

 appear hereon. 



