BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE ment, the Alaska Public Health Department, and the University of Alaska, and with such Federal agencies as the U, S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U. S. Public Health Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, EXPANSION OF RESEARCHIN OCEANOGRAPHY AND MARINE BIOLOGY DOE ARCH” . In February the Committee on Oceanography of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council released to the public the results of its study of national problems in oceanography. In its report the committee recommends that to present budgets for oceanographic research there be added budget provision of $651,000,000 over the next 10 years for various types of additional oceanographic activity. Of this amount, $32,000,000 or 5 percent is for additional research on radioactivity in the oceans; including such research already in progress, the recommended annual cost would be $4,000,000 to $6,000,000. The study assumesthat the AEC would finance the major part of this research. In fiscal year 1959, AEC support of re- search in oceanography and marine biology under the biology and medicine and reactor development programs amounts to about $1,200,000, and an increase to $1,700,000 is planned for 1960, : The AEC is cooperating with other Government agencies concerned with oceanography through a special committee at the bureau level which is to make specific recommendations at are to be submitted to the Federal Council for Science and Technology. Some of the other agencies on this committee are: various offices of the Department of the Navy; the National Science Foundation; the Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; and the Maritime Administration and the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Department of Commerce. An expansion of AEC oceanographic research would most likely include studies of radioactivity as related to: (1) control and monitoring, (2) estuarine and coastal research, (3) research in open ocean, (4) sedimentation, (5) effects on the biosphere, (6) genetic effects on marine organisms, and (7) biological field experiments. TRAINING AND EDUCATION Laboratory equipment grants of $316,717 were awarded to 31 colleges and universities during the first 3 months of 1959, These grants are intended to provide teaching aids, demon- stration apparatus, and student equipmentto assist nonprofit educational institutions in offering courses in nuclear technology as related to the life sciences. This was the sixth series of awards since establishment of the program in October 1957. Since that time, 152 grants amounting to $1,810,707 have been awarded to 110 institutions. Contracts have been negotiated for support of 19 institutes in radiation biology for high school and college science teachers in the summer of 1959. This program now includes 17 institutes for high school teachers and 2 institutes for college teachers. The institutes for college teachers are intended for teachers from small colleges, defined arbitrarily as colleges with a student enrollment of 5,000 or less. Harvard University completed the preparation of the manual of laboratory experiments and demonstrations in applications of radioisotopes in biology, The manual is to be printed by the Government Printing Office and will be available to the participants of next summer’s institutes described in the preceding paragraph. Other interested individuals will be able to purchase the manual from the Superintendent of Documents. (End of UNCLASSIFIED section.) f *t ly for carrying out the proposals of the Committee on Oceanography and is to present a coordinated Federal oceanographic program, including a budget. This committee’s recommendations ’