24 , * ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to thank the staff of the Laboratory of Radiation Ecology, whose work produced the data that made this report I wish especially to thank Dr. Thomas Beasley, who possible. ~11. of the radiochemical analyses and who did many supervised of them himself. Dr. Allyn Seymour and Dr. Beasley were of and in interpreting the great help in planning the collections results of the survey. and I am grateful to Dr. Beasley, Rodney Eagle, Terrence Raymoj~d Lusk for their part in the field collections. t’ne cooperation I appreciate Force Ei\;ht and Hoimes & Narver, field collections would not have without their help. JOkelaJ of personnel of Joint Task that the. Inc. , and recognize been successfully completed lie exchanged ~am,ples in the field with Drs. Institution and. Donald Squires of: ‘c-neSmithsonian from Oro’ken Island crabs for samples of COCOI-LUt Bi’kini Island- John Harshbarger and thank them and rats from made valuable Dr - Jack ‘i’obin, ‘i’rust‘Territory of the Pacific, and was instrumental iri suggestioils regarclinq t’ne collections obtaining the services of two Bikini people to assist with the collections. accompanied us William Moore, U.S. Public Health Service, and pointed out areas giving during mos-l.of t~le collections external radiation measurements; well water and the highest from t’nese areas. soil samples were collecteu were developed during The final guidelines for the survey a preliminary survey of Bikini Atoll in March, 1969 with Frank Cluff and Dons].d Hendricks, Nevada Operations Office, and .Alan Smit’n, lJ. S. Public Heai’c-n Service. . .