total solar radiation, rain, humidity, temperature, and soil-water potentials. For the past year, our water-flux model predicted wet season plant-transpiration rates nearly equal to the 6- to 7-mm/d evaporation-pan rate, which decreases to 2 to 3 mm/d for the dry season. From the microclimate data we estimated a 1:3 and 1:20 /sup 137/Cs dry-matter concentration ratio, which was later confirmed by radioisotopic analysis. This ratio exacerbates the dose to man from intake of food plants. Nephelometer measurements of airborne particulates presently indicate a minimum respiratory radiological dose.; Major Descriptors: *BIKINI -- REMOTE SENSING; *ENIWETOK -- REMOTE SENSING; *FPISSION PRODUCTS -- BIOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION; *FISSION PRODUCTS -ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY; *FISSION PRODUCTS -- RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION Descriptors: AMBIENT TEMPERATURE; CESIUM 137; CONTAMINATION; DATA COMPILATION; DUSTS; FOOD CHAINS; HUMIDITY; MOISTURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE AEROSOLS; RAIN; SOILS; SOLAR RADIATION Broader Terms: AEROSOLS; ALKALI METAL ISOTOPES; ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CESIUM ISOTOPES; COLLOIDS; DATA; DISPERSIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; INFORMATION; ISLANDS; ISOTOPES; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MASS TRANSFER; MATERIALS; MICRONESIA; MONITORING; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA; OCEANIA; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; RADIATIONS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOISOTOPES; SOLS ; STELLAR RADIATION; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES Subject Categories: 510302* -- Environment, Terrestrial -- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport -- Terrestrial Ecosystems & Food Chains -- (-1987) INIS Subject Categories: C22* -- Radionuclide Ecology 10/5/817 (Item 517 from file: 103) 00726658 ERA-06-011562; EDB-81-034912 Author(s): Petersen, Title: Health Division Organization D.F. (comp.) (1979) Title: Biomedical and Environmental Research Program of the LASL Life Sciences and Health Divisions. Progress report, January-December 1979 Publication Date: Oct 1980 p 88-109 Report Number(s): LA-8577-PR Document Type: Analytic of a Report Language: English Journal Announcement: EDB8103 Availability: NTIS, PC AO7/MF AOl. Subfile: ERA (Energy Research Center). Country of Origin: United States Abstracts); TIC (Technical Information Country of Publication: United States Abstract: In the first three papers of this section, interim soil limits for decontamination and decommissioning projects, information to the Eniwetak people and toxicology studies of selected materials of interest to the oil shale industry are summarized. The remainder of this section is devoted to research done at the Los Alamos National Environmental Research Park. A range of disturbed and undisturbed areas exists which affords investigations into EIK migratory patterns, In addition, fire radionuclide tracer studies of soils and vegetation have been done. (KRM); Major Descriptors: *PLANTS -- SAMPLING; *PLANTS -- ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY; *SOILS -- EVALUATION; *SOILS -- SOILS; *LAND POLLUTION -DECONTAMINATION; *RADIOACTIVITY -- ACTIVITY LEVELS; *LYMPHOCYTES -ENZYME ACTIVITY; *OIL SHALE INDUSTRY -- INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE; *URINE -MUTAGEN SCREENING; *RUMINANTS -- MIGRATION; *RUMINANTS -- POPULATION DYNAMICS; *TELEMETRY -- COMPUTER GRAPHICS; *FIRES -- ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; * ENDANGERED SPECIES -- EVALUATION; *FRESH WATER -- WATER CHEMISTRY; *FRESH WATER -- WATER QUALITY; *BACKGROUND RADIATION -SEASONAL VARIATIONS; *BACKGROUND RADIATION -- THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; *GASEOUS WASTES -- THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; *ANTIMONY 125 -- RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; *CERIUM 141 -- RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; Y003597b ecology and the status of flora in the park.