Personnel:
Edward Held, group leader
Kelshaw Bonham
Stanley Gessel
Paul Olson
Dale Cole
Gary Baker
Project 40,2 - Test Operation Surveys:
Lagoon - Atoll studies.
During the testing program specific projects at Eniwetok Atoll
will be evaluated as follows
(a)
Plants and animals from the islands proper and from the
reef, especially food items, as well as water, plankton and soil samples
will be collected and quantitative measurements of radioactivity completed on all samples.
A selected portion of the samples will be chosen
for analysis of specific isotopes to add to the basic knowledge of trace
mineral uptake by the forms in the island-lagoon environment.
(b) Studies on the populations of rats on Janet Island to evaluate the soil-plant-rat-igotope relationship will be undertaken.
Time schedule:
Support facility:
April 12 - July 15, 1958
Eniwetok Marine Biological Laboratory
Transportation to the local areas by land, water and air is needed.