GSA FPM A (41 Grrr) 108-11.8 AO ej 4 y ao “on x08 OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10 MAY 1982 EDITION ; : Files FROM >: Arnold B. Joseph, Marine Scientist DATE: May 26, 1967 Environmental Sciences Branch, DBM SUBJECT: PRELIMINARY TRIP REPORT--"BIKINI ATOLL ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEY-1967" 43a TO eye: Memorandum. SS AVI ‘ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT f - BMES :ABJ An Atomic Energy Commission-Trust Territories environmental survey team of ten scientists and technicians and four iiarshallese natives made radioactivity measurements, took samples of soils, vegetation and animals, and observed environmental conditions at essentially all of the islands in the Bikini Atoll during the period April 23 to May 7, 1967. The team consisted of thirteen AEC and AEC corftractor personnel and one Trust Territory representative: Tommy McCraw, Radiological Physicist (Division of Operational Safety) and A. B. Joseph, Marine Scientist (Division of Biology and Medicine), AEC Headquarters; Harold Beck and Burt Bennett (Radiological Physics) of the AEC's, New York, Health and Safety Laboratory; Francis Tomnovec and Edmond Jones (Radiological Physics) of the U. S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory; Edward Held (project leader), Robert Erickson and Jack Tobin (Ecologist, Fisheries Biologist and Anthropologist), University of Washington; Trust Territories personnel: James Hiyane, Majuro District Agriculturalist (Trust Territories); and four Marshallese natives (paid by AEC)--one of whom (Jendrik L.) was a former Bikini resident. . Transportation to Bikini and around the Atoll was by the M/V Militobi, a, [Trust Territory chartered passenger-cargo ship, rechartered by AEC. This ship (156 feet long, 11 feet draft, 486 gross tons) was manned by a‘crew of 21 of mixed nationalities--mainly Micronesian. The ship's cargo hauling workboats provided ship to shore transportation; these were advantageous in the rough waters at the south edge of the Atoll. . The survey team made measurements and observations on 17 separate land masses; a small island - Arriikan - on the southern rim was bypassed, as were four sand bars (unnamed) on the north rim. Hundreds of radiation measurements were made, mostly with handheld, betagamma, Geiger-Muller type survey meters. Gamma spectra were measured at several places on the larger islands and on soil samples from islands where BEST COPYAVAILABLE Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan