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file Gross, M. G. (1970) “Statement to the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pol- 
lution of the Senate Committee on Public Works”, Washington, D.C., 
March 5, 1970. 
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JOHN M. Hunt, CHAIRMAN, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, Woops HOLE 
OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION, Woops HoLr, MASSACHUSETTS 
Dr. Hunt was born in Cleveland, Ohio and received his education from Case- 
Western Reserve University and Pennsylvania State University (Ph.D., 1946). 
He spent fifteen years in the exploration research laboratory of Standard Oil of 
New Jersey in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he eventually became Head of the Geo- 
chemistry Research Section. In 1964 he joined the Woods Hole Oceanographic 
Institution as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry. 
Dr. Hunt has served on research committees of the American Petroleum 
Institute and is a past Chairman of the Organic Geochemistry Group of the 
Geochemical Society. He has been active in the American Chemical Society, Geo- 
logical Society of America, American Geological Institute, American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, and the American Association of Petroleum 
Geologists. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Bulletin of the American 
Association of Petroleum Geologists and is a Lecturer on their Continuing 
Education Committee. He has published numerous papers in the field of organic 
geochemistry, and his current interests extend through all phases of chemical 
oceanography. 
Dr. Hunt acknowledges long-term support of the work in his department 
by the National Science Foundation, the Atomic Energy Commission and the 
Office of Naval Research. 
Mr. Drncetu. Doctor, the Chair wishes to commend you for a very, 
very helpful statement. Mr. Keith? 
Mr. Karr. I join with you in expressing our thanks to Dr. Hunt, 
and I would point out that from time to time we have had other mem- 
bers of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution down here, and 
they have been invariably helpful to us in determining what the proper 
course of action by this committee and the Congress is. I have used 
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