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The ARGO MERCHANT 

 Oil Spill 



A Preliminary Scientific Report 



Edited by 



Peter L. Grose and James S. Mattson 



NOAA Environmental Data Service 



Center for Experiment Design and Data Analysis 



Major contributing organizations: 



U.S. Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 



U.S. Department of Defense/Department of the Navy 



U.S. Department of Interior/Bureau of Land Management 



U.S. Department of Transportation/Coast Guard 



U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration 



Manomet Bird Observatory 



Marine Biological Laboratory 



Massachusetts/Fisheries and Game Division 



National Aeronautics and Space Administration 



National Science Foundation 



University of Rhode Island 



Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 



and a great number of participating organizations 

 as noted within the report 



March 1977 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

 Juanita M. Kreps, Secretary 



National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 

 Robert M. White, Administrator 



