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Marin« Mammal Tissue Archlva; 



National Status and Trands Program; 



Climat* Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory at Barrow; 



Polar Satellites; 



Arctic Ocean circulation Studies; 



Arctic Atmospheric Transport Studies; 



Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Modelling Efforts; 



NOAA/Navy Joint Ice Center; and 



Data Rescue Efforts 



All of these programs have some scientific bearing on assessing 

 the potential of environmental risk due to contamination of the 

 Arctic by the Former Soviet Union. I will provide some details 

 on the first two programs because they were specifically 

 mentioned in the Committee's invitation. 



The marine mammal tissue archive is a part of tha National Marine 

 Mammal Tissue Bank and Stranding Network Program managed by 

 NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) . It is designed 

 to conduct, on a regular basis, the collection and storage of 

 selected marine mammal tissues. Based on available funds, the 

 national goal is to conduct a standard suite of analyses on 10-20 

 marine mammals in each region from which tissues are taken. The 

 normal suite of analyses will include organics, inorganics, 

 toxins, necropsy, and histopathology. The Alaska Marine Mammal 



