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AMERICAN-SOVIET SYMPOSIUM ON CHEMICAL POLLUTION OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT (1ST) HELD AT ODESSA, USSR ON MAY 24-28, 1977
Citation:
Turekian, K. AND A. Simonov. AMERICAN-SOVIET SYMPOSIUM ON CHEMICAL POLLUTION OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT (1ST) HELD AT ODESSA, USSR ON MAY 24-28, 1977. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/9-78/038 (NTIS PB298343), 1978.
Description:
This symposium, organized under a U.S.-U.S.S.R. Environmental Agreement (Project 02.06-21), focuses on the impact of chemical pollution on the world's oceans. Soviet and American specialists discuss the fate of heavy metals in estuaries and the Gulf of Mexico; transport of natural radionuclides in shelf waters of the eastern U.S.; the distribution and dynamics of trace metals in pore water and sediment; biogeochemical research on metals in the world's oceans; monitoring chemical pollution and forecasting its biological consequences; arsenic, antimony, and mercury in seawater; pollution of the Caribbean Basin; oil and oil products in surface waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans; the forms of heavy metals in seawater (e.g. mercury); methods of sampling water from the ocean surface microlayer and the technical composition of the microlayer; a method for determining mercury; scientific aspects of marine pollution problems; and the management of the quality of the marine environment. Publication of the proceedings held May 24-28, 1977, in Odessa, U.S.S.R., is in compliance with the Memorandum from the 4th Session of the Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. Committee on Cooperation in the Field of Environmental Research.