The approximate budget breakdown for the first two years of SEAREX is given below. Details are presented in the individual proposals following. - Approximate Research Budget: Ist Year University of Rhode IslandUniversity of Connecticut $245,803 $241,800 California Institute of Technology 77,000 77,000 Scripps Institute of Oceanography 103,000 37 ,000 Yale University 10,000 10,000 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 96,000 96,000 Texas A & M University 99,000 79,000 University of Miami 78,000 79,000 $137 ,080 $103,460 CFR/CNRS, France Approximate Field Support and Management Budget: III. 2nd Year 25,000 25,0006 STRATEGIES FOR PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT The SEAREX Program is an outgrowth of several components of the Pollutant Transport Program (PTP) of the NSF/IDOE Environmental Quality Program. During the second PTP Workshop at Skidaway Institute of Oceano- graphy in January, 1976, it was recommended that the study of pollutant transport into the ocean could perhaps be best structured around a series of investigations of the fluxes and processes of exchange across the major et. lave er Cb Se sore, ocean/transport path interfaces, i.e., ocean/air; ocean/river; ocean/sediment; and ocean/biota. This concept was formalized by the NSF/IDOE Office during the summer of 1976 in a white paper entitled "Toward a New NSF/IDOE/EQ Program in Marine Pollution Studies”. In late summer, 1976, three of the PTP investigators (Duce, Goldberg, Patterson) studying sea/air exchange processes met in Paris to discuss a coordinated sea/air exchange program and strategies necessary to develop a