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OIL PAINT & DRUG REPORTER Nov 8, 1971 DDT, PCBs Found in Atlantic Ocean Plants, Animals ^ Scientists have found concentrations of line data for the study of marine pollution of copying paper. DDT and PCB are man DDT in most specimens, and polychlori as part of the environmental quality pro made and do not occur in nature. nated biphenyls PCB) in practically all gram of the IDOE. The research was conducted by Drs. specimens of plants and animals they collected on extensive cruises throughout the Atlantic Ocean. Plants and animals sampled include Sargassum weed, zooplankton, flying flsh, triggerflsh, dolphin-fish, sharks, and many animals, including small fishes, that daily George R. Harvey, Vaughn T. Bowen and Richard H. Barkus, of Woods Hole Ocea nographic Institution: and Dr. George D. Grici*. now of the National Science Foun The cruises, by vessels of the Woods Eoie Oceanographic Institution, were part of the continuing US program for the International Decade of Ocean Explora tion <IOD>. migrate from the surface to as deep as 3,000 feet. Polychlorinated biphenyls are used as an insulator in electrical capacitors, as transformer oik a heating medium, plas dation. Information about the research results was presented at the seventh session of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Com mission (IOC), meeting in Paris, as part Scientists aboard the vessels were con ticizer, and are present in hydraulic of the first formal announcement to the ducting projects designed to obtain base fluids, lubricating oils and in certain types international scientific community of the United Stales IDOE program. Representatives of the seventy-two member countries of the IOC, an organiza tion within the United Nations Educa tional, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO), concluded a two-week meeting last Saturday (November 6). Copies to: C. P. Cunningham Announcement of the program at the IOC meeting was made by Dr. Thomas B. / Owen, assistant director of national and W. R. Coi/ey international programs of the National John Mason Science Foundation. The NSF is lead agezicy for the IDOE effort in the United W. B. Papageorge States. The IDOE was first proposed by Presi ' H. S./Bergen E. E. Wheeler dent Johnson in March 1968. In December of that year, the United Nations endorsed the idea of a coordinated long-range pro P./S. Park gram of oceanographic research and formally welcomed the proposed IDOE Sam Pickard as an important element P.J.A. Marsh-BrusseIs E. V. John HONS 0 6 2 9 6 1