1 DR. MACIOLEK: Good morning. I'm Nancy Maciolek and I'll be 



2 chairing this morning's session. 



3 Before we get started, a couple of items to mention to you. 



4 First, we'd like to record attendance at the sessions and I'm going to 



5 start this attendance list around the room. If you'd please sign your 



6 name and some other information that's requested. 



7 Secondly, after the talks when you'd like to ask a question, if 



8 you would please give your name so that the people that are recording 



9 the sessions will have a record of who it is that is asking the 



10 question. 



11 Each talk will be 25 minutes and 5 minutes for discussion at the 



12 end. We should be pretty much on schedule this morning. There is one 



13 change. Bob Ayers from Exxon, I understand, has been iced-in in Houston 



14 and won't be with us this morning, so his talk will not be given. 



15 I'd like to introduce our first speaker this morning. Dr. Richard 



16 Cooper, director of the National Undersea Research Center at the 



17 University of Connecticut. Dr. Cooper's presentation will be on "Pre- 



18 and Post-Drilling Benchmarks and Monitoring Data of Ocean Floor Fauna, 



19 Habitats, and Contaminant Loads in the Georges Bank Submarine Canyons." 



20 Dr. Cooper. 

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22 PRESENTATION OF DR. RICHARD A. COOPER 



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24 DR. COOPER: Thank you, Nancy. Good morning folks. It's nice to 



25 see the faces of some "jery old friends, old in terms of years gone back, 



26 not necessarily age. It's especially enjoyable for me to step out of 



27 the role of being a program manager, center director-type and get, at 



28 least for a few days, into the role of scientist. 



29 I'm going to zip rather rapidly through some introductory comments 



30 and some generic summarizations of 12 years of submarine canyon work, so 



31 that I can show you as much of a submarine video tape, 8 mm [?] in 



32 color, that time will permit. 



