In November 1979, an international conference was held in Brest 

 sponsored by CNEXO. Investigators sponsored by the Joint NOAA/CNEXO 

 Scientific Commission, as well as a number of other scientists, gave 

 papers at this conference. The proceedings of this conference entitled 

 " Amoco Cadiz : Fates and Effects of the Oil Spill" make a very good 

 summary of the first one and one-half year study after the spill. 



Following the second meeting of the Joint Commission, Dr. Hess left 

 NOAA and was replaced as co-chairman by Dr. Joseph W. Angelovic from the 

 Office of Ocean Programs in NOAA. 



The third meeting of the Joint Commission was held in Paris, France, 

 October 28, 1980, in conjunction with the meeting of the U.S. -French 

 Cooperative Program in Oceanography. The previous work was reviewed and 

 the final year of the research program was planned. 



Now the three-year study is over and attempts are being made to 

 bring together the findings of the investigators. A workshop was held in 

 Charleston, South Carolina, on September 17-18, 1981, to report on the 

 physical and chemical studies. A second workshop was held in Brest, 

 France, on October 28-30, 1981, to report on the biological effects 

 studies. This document is the report of those workshops and forms the 

 body of the final report to Amoco from the Joint NOAA/CNEXO Scientific 

 Commission. 



Speaking for all who worked on the spill, we would like to thank the 

 Amoco Transport Company for sponsoring this three-year study of the 

 effects of the spill. Without Amoco 's help, we would be nowhere near our 

 present state of knowledge of what the effects of the spill were or how 

 the recovery back to normal conditions has proceeded. Other studies have 

 been carried out, sponsored by the French Government and other sources, 

 but an important part of the work has been sponsored by Amoco. 



Mr. Russ Mallatt, Dr. James Marum, Mr. John Lamping, Ms. Carol 

 Cummings and others from Amoco attended meetings of the Joint Commission 

 and the scientific sessions. They were always helpful and supportive of 

 the Commission's work and never intruded on the design or conduct of the 

 program. 



We have, through this cooperative effort, obtained more detailed and 

 more useful knowledge of the effects of this oil spill than of any other 

 large oil spill in history. A major reason for this is that the 

 biological communities present before the spill had been studied in great 

 detail by French scientists. 



Today many of the areas impacted by the spill appear to the casual 

 observer to be recovered from the effects of the oil. However, investi- 

 gations have shown that differences still exist between some of the 

 current ecosystems and those present prior to the spill. Hopefully other 

 studies will continue to watch and document the recovery processes. 



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