years technical support.
Major equipment purchases included a Lawrence
Livermore Laboratory Portable Gamma Spectrometer and two Reuter Stokes Environmental Radiation Monitors.
Naidu (BNLHPS)
joined Greenhouse to form the
program's principle staff.
Nelson and Greenhouse collaborated on a field trip to Majuro, Ponape,
Truk, Guam, and Palau, as part of the UWLRE Pacific Basin Study.
Greenhouse,
Naidu, and Kuehner of BNLHPS, Haughey of Rutgers University, Terpilak of the
Department
of Health, Education and Welfare,
Bureau of Radiological Health
and Kastens of University of New York at Stony Brook, Marine Science Center
participated in a March-April field trip to Bikini Atoll.
Their primary ob-
jectives were beta and gamma dose rate measurements on Bikini Island and a
general radiological survey of Nam Island in the northwestern sector of the
atoll.
This survey
included limited soil and vegetation sampling.
A joint
BNLHPS and UWLRE survey with the BNL Medical Department was undertaken in
September.
The BNLHPS objective was to perform an environmental radiation
survey at Wotje, Ailuk, Utirik, Rongelap and Bikini Atolls.
Special efforts
focussed on several northern islands at Rongelap.
PUBLICATION:
Marshall Islands Radiological Followup, N. A. Greenhouse
and T. F. McCraw, BNL #20767.
PRESENTATIONS:
Marshall Islands Radiological Followup, N. A. Green-
house, Presented at the Ninth Midyear Topical Symposium, Operational Health
Physics, Denver, Colorado, February 1976.
FY 1977
Funding levels were $207,000 for operating and $80,000 for capital
equipment.
Staffing levels were 2.0 man years scientific and professional