LEAD ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; MONITORING; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA; OCEANIA; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES; POTASSIUM ISOTOPES; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIUM ISOTOPES; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; THORIUM ISOTOPES; URANIUM ISOTOPES; VERTEBRATES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES Subject Categories: 510301* -- Environment, Terrestrial -- Radicactive Materials Monitoring & Transport -- Soil -- (-1987) 510302 -- Environment, Terrestrial -- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport -- Terrestrial Ecosystems & Food Chains -- 520302 (-1987) -- Environment, Aquatic -- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport -- Aquatic Ecosystems & Food Chains -- (-1987) 560173 ‘-- Radiation Effects -- Nuclide Kinetics & Toxicology -- Plants -- (-1987) 560172 Animals -- Radiation Effects -- Nuclide Kinetics & Toxicology --- (-1987) INIS Subject Categories: B31* -- Land C22 -- Radionuclide Ecology C21 -- Tissue Distribution, Metabolism, Radionuclides 10/5/942 00464650 (Item 642 from file: Toxicology & Removal of 103) ERA-04-024553; EDB-79-038749 Author(s): Smith, S.V.; Foster, M.A. Title: Mid-Pacific Marine Laboratory. 30, 1976 ; Corporate Source: Publication Date: Hawaii Univ., Sep 1978 Annual report, Honolulu p 120 July 1, 1975--June, (USA) Report Number(s): NV0-0628-2 Contract Number (DOE): EX-76-S-08-0628 Document Type: Report Language: English Journal Announcement: EDB7903 Availability: Dep. NTIS, PC A0Q6/MF A0l. Subfile: ERA Center). (Energy Research Abstracts); TIC (Technical Information Country of Origin: United States Country of Publication: United States Abstract: The two major categories of study are general ecology and biogeochemistry. The biogeochemical studies clearly tie to a major MPML goal of research leading towards understanding of the cycling of materials in atoll ecosystems. In general, the listed biogeochemical studies represent inventories of materials (including materials of potential medical importance) in various ecosystem components and assessing material fluxes. Within the general field biology ecology studies, there is a shift towards quantification and an increasing proportion of studies related to population dynamics. Material fluxes Major Descriptors: *AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS -- BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; *BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; *OCEANOGRAPHY; *SEAS -- BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; *SEAS -ECOLOGY; *TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS -- BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS Descriptors: EDUCATION; FOOD CHAINS; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS Broader Terms: BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOCHEMISTRY; RADIATION EFFECTS; SURFACE WATERS Subject Categories: (-1989) 520100* -- Environment, Aquatic -- Basic Studies -- 9004051 (in the form of food-web dynamics) figure prominently in the studies. Both of these shifts are also consistent with the goal stated above. MPML remains an important site for the study of environmental physiology and possible radiation-induced genetic alterations. Oceanographic and physiographic studies are leading towards a better understanding of physical advective processes and ecosystem compartment characteristics. Terrestrial studies are being given increasing attention, in large part because of the practical importance of the terrestrial environment to the returning Enewetakese. Finally, two studies represent a venture into a new field for MPML: training of students and teachers in the Marshall Islands.;