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APPENDIX II 
SELECTED INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES DEALING WITH MARINE POLLUTION 
Organization and/or conference 
1G Working Group on Marine Pollu- 
ion. 
Joint Group of Experts on Scientific 
Aspects of Marine Pollution 
(GESAMP). 
International Coordination Group (CG) 
for the Global Investigation of Pollu- 
tion in the Marine Environment 
(GIPME). 
Integrated Global Ocean Station System 
(IGOSS). 
Commission on Monitoring. ._.______- 
ACMRR/ACOMR/ECOR/ICES/SCOR 
Working Group on Marine Pollution 
Research (SCOR Working Group 45). 
ACMRR/IABO Working Party on Bio- 
logical Effects of Pollutants. 
ACMRR/IABO—Working Party on Eco- 
logical Indices for Measuring the 
State of Living Resources as Affected 
by Environmental Stresses. 
WHO Group on Sublethal Effects of 
Pollutants on Marine Organisms. 
International Biological Program— 
Marine Productivity (1BP/PM). 
Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Pro- 
gram. 
International Decade of Ocean Ex- 
ploration (1DOE). 
International Council for the Explora- 
tion of the Sea (ICES). 
Cooperative Investigation of the Med- 
iterranean (CIM). 
Global Atmospheric Research Program 
(GARP). 
International Association on Water Pol- 
lution Research (IAWPR). 
Sponsoring international agencies 
and/or other bodies Remarks 
OS KCUINESCO) Bese ee Met only once in August 1967, then dis- 
banded. 
IMCO/FAO/UNESCO/WMO/WHO/IAEA Met for Ist time March 1969 and annually 
JU.N. since to review marine pollution 
problems of international significance 
on an interdisciplinary basis. 
Met for lst time in April 1973 to coordinate 
globally marine pollution investigations 
under 10C’s LEPOR program. 
[OCKQUNESCO) 22 eee 
10C (UNESCO) WMO Propesal for a pilot oil pollution monitor- 
ing project made in 1973 at the 3d 
session of the Group of Experts on 
Oceanographic Research as it Relates 
to 1GOSS (RES). 
Prepared a report on global environmental 
monitoring for the U.N. Conference on 
the Human Environment, Stockholm, 
June 1972. 
ACMRR/ACOMR/ECOR/ICES/SCOR___ Met for the 1st time in London on March 
30, 1973, to develop terms of reference 
and a plan of activities. Advises the 
ICG for GIPME on Marine Pollution 
research. 
Organized in 1973 to undertake reviews of 
bioassays and other aspecis of biological 
effecis of marine pollution. 
Designated by parent bodies (FAO) and 
other affiliated groups (ICG for GIPME, 
SCOR) for this function in 1973. 
ICSU/SCOPE 
ACMRR/IABO 
ACMRRITAB Otu 2 ears eens 
Proposed in 1972 to examine long-term 
effects on aquatic organisms of the same 
suite of pollutants to which man may be 
exposed. Study on flounders in Oslo 
: : : Fjord is one of first such investigations. 
Coordinated by an international IBP Organized as a 5-year program, 1565-70, 
committee. Supported by national but was extended in some cases to 1974. 
science funding agencies, such as Perturbation of the marine environment 
National Science Foundation in by activities of man were considefed in 
the United States and the National some of the studies of this program. 
Research Council in Canada. 
UNESCO coordination; supported by Only peripheral interest in the marine en- 
national science funding agencies. vironment, i.e., estuaries and coastal 
zones, 
10C (UNESCO). Funded by national A program spearheading national U.S. 
science funding agencies such as activities in marine environmental 
NSF's office of IDOE in the United studies. 
States. f 
Nembemstatesesocecse meas eee Highly effective organization, started in 
1901, to deal mainly with hydrography 
and fisheries in the North Sea, Baltic 
Sea, and Northeast Atlantic. Now mem- 
bership extended to United States and 
Canada and area of interest may cover 
whole North Atlantic. d 
Coordinated by the Joint lIOC/ICSEM/ Pollution interests are only peripheral. 
GFCM Group for Technical Coordi- Emphasis is on oceanography and re- 
nation of CIM. newable aquatic resources. 
WMO/ICSU Organizing Committee.. Transport of pollutants through the at- 
mosphere and transfer to the sea will 
probably be part of the GARP Atlantic 
Tropical Experiment (GATE) as well as 
other GARP. exercises. 
Organized and coordinated by an Ist International Conference on Water 
international governing body. Poliution Research, held in London, 
England, during 1962. Conferences held 
every 2 years with the 7th conference 
scheduled for Paris, France, in Septem- 
ber 1974. Proceedings cf conferences 
published in series ‘‘Advances in Water 
Pollution Research,’ [AWPR also pub= 
lishes “‘Water Research,’’ an_ inter- 
national journal covering the field of 
water pollution research. Marine pol- 
lution research is 1 of 3 main interests. 
