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such substances as strontium, calcium and argon 

 in certain minerals; co-precipitation of metallic 

 ions with calcium carbonate; and work on helium- 

 uranium ratios for fossil shells and corals as 

 related to geochronology and incidential study of 

 ancient oceanic conditions and comparison with 

 modern conditions. No project of the Division 

 of Research is classified as oceanography per se; 

 however, several projects in the areas described 

 above are of indirect interest to several ocean- 

 ographic research investigations. 



DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION 

 AND WELFARE 



Public Health Service 



Bureau of State Services 



FY 1965-11,100,000 

 FY 1966-11,060,000 

 FY 1967-11,083,000 



Background 



Oceanographic research in the Bureau of State 

 Services is carried out in the division of Environ- 

 mental Engineering and Food Protection and of 

 Radiological Health. All work is conducted in 

 support of the basic PHS mission, safeguarding 

 the public health, and is conducted on the con- 

 tinental shelf. 



Proposed FY 1967 Program 



Division of Environmental Eng 



■ing 



and Food 



Protection, Shellfish Sanitation Branch 



This program is concerned with the public 

 health suitability of foods derived from water 

 and with the effects of marine organisms or their 

 byproducts on man. Some research is sponsored 

 at universities. In-house research is performed 

 at shellfish sanitation research centers at Dauphin 

 Island, Ala.; Narragansett, R.I.; and Purd), Wash. 

 In FY 1967, studies will be continued on the fate 

 of pathogenic organisms (including viruses) in 

 estuarine waters and on the accumulation of 

 suspended, colloidal, dissolved, and radioactive 



pollutants by shellfish, with emphasis on pesticides 

 and other toxic (to humans) materials, and in- 

 dustrial wastes. Studiesof paralytic shellfish poison 

 will be continued on the Atlantic and Pacific 

 coasts, with emphasis on ecology and laboratory 

 essay procedmes. On the Gulf Coast, laboratory 

 and ecolog)- studies will be continued on neuro- 

 toxins associated with the "Red Tide." Tech- 

 niques for laboratory identification of Type E 

 botulism organisms, commonly associated with 

 sea food, and their estuarine ecology, will be 

 developed. Studies will be continued on the iden- 

 tification of marine substances which inhibit the 

 growth of human disease or of cancer producing 

 organisms. Limited studies will be initiated on 

 the potential transmission of hmnan disease- 

 causing organisms by sea birds. 



Division of Radiological Health 



Through research contracts to instittitions, the 

 Division will continue investigations into the fate 

 of radioacdve materials in the marine environ- 

 ment, and their effect upon man. 



National Institutes of Health 



FY 1965-11,940,000 

 FY 1966-12,100,000 

 FY 1967-$2,25Q,000 



Background 



Biomedical scientists supported by the National 

 Institutes of Health (NIH) ask fundamental 

 questions of vital importance to himian biology 

 and seek the answers wherever they may be found. 

 Basic biological phenomena frequently prevail 

 among many, or even all, living things. Some of 

 these phenomena can be studied more readily 

 in the simpler structures of marine invertebrates 

 than in the complex structures of mammals com- 

 monly used as experimental animals. 



It is clear that, in terms of NIH programs, 

 marine biology is not of itself a discipline, but 

 that the use of marine forms contributes to re- 

 search in many of the biomedical disciplines, such 

 as physiology, biochemistry, genetics, micro- 

 biology, developmental biology, and the be- 

 havioral sciences. In the evolution of NIH pro- 

 grams, it is not the purpose of the Institutes to 



