Dr. John NW, Wolfe, Chief 5 TunaMonitrng: April 19, 1983 To provide a broad view of the degree of peesible contamination of Pacific tuna (because the question still worried the Japanese), the Laboratory made arrangements with a member of a Japanese laboratory to ship to Seattle samples of tuna brought to Japan by Japanese fishing vessels working in various parts of the Pacific area. This arrangement provided an international concurrent approach to the analysis of tuna, but it was a program apart from the Laboratory's normal radiobiological interests. WasteDisposal: Because of its experience in aquatic studies, the Laboratory was represented in deliberations of the Committee on Oceanography of the NAS-NRC Subcommittee to consider the problem of low-level radioactive wastes in the Pacific off the North American coast. Biological Efects: The Laboratory was represented by the Director in the National Academy of Sciences study of the biological effects of radiation, the Director of the Laboratory sitting with the Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation on Oceanography and Fisheries. 1959 RadiationSiolgy: At the request of the National Science Foundation and the Commission, the Laboratory organized in 1959 summer and in-service institutes in radiation biology fer college and high school teachers. The development of these institutes, Pr The Laboratory was called into con- although a welcome assignment, reguired diversion of staff time to administrative and instructional duties for which the Laboratory had to make special prepara~ tion and which have been continued in subsequent years at some cost in diffusion of stafi effort, ar 1 sultation in 1958 when Froject Chariot was being set up under the Plowshare Program. sy 1959, the Chariot Committee, organized as a policy and advisory grouc, had become in fact an operating committee in which the Laboratory representative occupied a key position. The Laboratory involvement in this program continued until the nuhiteation of final reports in 1963.