Bioenvironmental Studies at Amchitka Island, Alaska

Battelle's Columbus Laboratories, with assistance from federal and state agencies, Smithsonian Institution, and several universities, was responsible for predicting, documenting, and evaluating the ecological effects of AEC-NVOO's activities at Amchitka. The research program that began in 1967 and is continuing was concerned with all aspects of bioenvironmental responses to nuclear testing activities. Commercially important and rare and endangered species received special attention.