26 MARINE SCIENCE 



(A biographical sketch of Mr. Carritt follows :) 

 Dayton Ernest Carritt 



Address : Chesapeake Bay Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 

 Md. 



Born : Boston, Masis., March 12, 1915 ; married, 1939 ; child, 1. 



Major field of interest : Chemistry. 



Degrees: B.S., Rhode Island State College, 1937; fellow Harvard, 1939-41; 

 Ph. D. (analytical chemistry), 1948. 



Professional career : Chemical technician, Woods Hole Oceanographic In- 

 stitution, 1937-38 ; Research chemist, Bureau of Ships, U.S. Navy Department, 

 Woods Hole, 1941-42 ; instructor in chemistry, Rhode Island State College, 

 1942-43; scientist, Manhattan district, Los Alamos, 1943-46; instructor, chem- 

 istry, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La JoUa, Calif., 1947-51 ; associate 

 professor, oceanography, Johns Hopkins University, 1951-. Was with Office 

 of Scientific Research and Development, 1944. 



Member: A.A., Chemical Society; Geophysical Union; Society of Limnology 

 and Oceanography ; New York Academy. 



Scientific contributions in theory of the action of antifouling paints ; atomic 

 weight studies; polarography ; plutonium chemistry; chemical properties of 

 sea water. 



STATEMENT OE DAYTON E. CARRITT, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY 



Mr. Carritt. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, my 

 name is Dayton E. Carritt. I am at present associate professor of 

 oceanography and assistant director of the Chesapeake Bay Institute 

 in the Johns Hopkins University. 



My experience has included employment as a scientist in the Man- 

 hattan district, Los Alamos project, during the war, and more recently 

 as a faculty member in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La 

 Jolla, Calif., and in the Department of Oceanography at the Jolms 

 Hopkins University; and as an investigator at the Woods Hole 

 Oceanographic Institution at Woods Hole, Mass. 



I am a member of the National Academy of Science's National Ee- 

 search Council Committee on the Biological Effects of Atomic Radia- 

 tion in Oceanography and Fisheries, and chairman of the working 

 group of the Committee on Oceanography that did the study leading 

 to NAS-NRC Publication No. 655 entitled "Radioactive Waste Dis- 

 posal Into Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Waters." 



I consider it both a privilege and a responsibility to come before this 

 committee to discuss certain aspects of the radioactive waste problem 

 as it applies to the marine environment. 



First, I would say that I believe there is considerable misunder- 

 standing with regard to the basic decision of whether or not we should 

 use the marine environment as the receiving grounds for the controlled 

 disposal of certain well-defined kinds of radioactive wastes. 



I have the impression that a great many people in this country and 

 abroad, both scientists and laymen, feel that so long as we do not de- 

 liberately add radioactive waste materials to the oceans, the oceans 

 will remain free of all manmade radioactive contamination. I am 

 firmly convinced that this is not so. 



The Chairman. By this. Doctor, I assume you mean if it isn't de- 

 liberately dumped into areas like the Gulf of Mexico, as Senator Yar- 

 borough points out ; if it is just left alone ? 



Mr. Carritt. That is right. 



