11:45 a.m LUNCH BREAK 



Chairperson: Dr. Page Valentine 



1:00 p.m Overview of the Biogenic and 



Anthropogenic Hydrocarbon 



Distributions in Sediments 



Along the North Atlantic 



Margin Dr. Paul Boehm 



1:30 p.m Potential Effects of Drilling 



Effluents on Marine Organisms Dr. Jerry Neff 



2:00 p.m Megafaunal Populations in 



Lydonia Canyon, with Notes 



on Three Other North Atlantic 



Canyons Dr. Barbara Hecker 



2:30 p.m Benthic Infauna of Lydonia 



Canyon and the Adjacent 



Slope Environment Dr. Nancy Maciolek/ 



3:30 p.m COFFEE BREAK 



Dr. Fred Grassle 



Chairperson: Mr. Jim Lane 



4:00 p.m Drilling was Prohibited in 



Submarine Canyons in 1984 Ms. Pat Hughes 



North Atlantic Submarine 



Canyons: 



Maine's Perspective Ms. Katrina VanDusen 



The Submarine Canyons: 



Drill or Defer? 



A Rhode Island Perspective Dr. Bruce Vild 



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