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PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MARINE POLLUTION RESEARCH HELD IN GULF BREEZE, FLORIDA ON JANUARY 27-29, 1976
Citation:
Meyers, S. PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MARINE POLLUTION RESEARCH HELD IN GULF BREEZE, FLORIDA ON JANUARY 27-29, 1976. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/9-76/032 (NTIS PB267601), 1976.
Description:
The symposium papers discuss how man's activities have affected natural resources of a coastal environment. Participants, representing international aspects of coastal pollution, reviewed current status of research and procedures planned to minimize offshore coastal damage. Subjects included are: An overview of the USEPA program in marine pollution research; Responsibilities for marine pollution research within federal agencies of the United States; Overview of marine pollution research in the Baltic; Marine pollution research in Yugoslavia; Overview of marine pollution research in Egypt; Overview on pollution in the coastal environment of Pakistan and its possible implication for the marine ecosystem; Overviews on marine pollution in India; Research needs concerning pollution of the marine benthos; Hydrological, chemical and physical processes affecting pollution of the Baltic Sea; Investigation of pollution-stressed littoral communities in the Northern Adriatic; Microbiology and chemistry of estuarine surface microlayers; Survival of viruses in the marine environment; Relationship of marine pollution to human health; and Bioassays as indicators of pollution effects.