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Guide to the University of Washington, Laboratory of Radiation Ecology Records
1944-1984



 
Record Group No. :37.06.05
Creator:University of Washington. Laboratory of Radiation Ecology
Title:University of Washington, Laboratory of Radiation Ecology records
Date Span:1944-1984
Quantity: 27 cubic feet (27 boxes)
Languages:Collection materials are in English.

Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Historical Note

The Applied Fisheries Laboratory was created at the University of Washington in 1943. Dr. Lauren R. Donaldson was the first director. In 1946 the laboratory came under the administration of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The laboratory was charged with the responsibility to develop methods for evaluating the hazards of radiation in and around water used as a cooling agent for atomic energy plants. Its main efforts were directed toward evaluating the effect of the Hanford Nuclear Site on the Columbia River. In 1946 the laboratory began studies of the biological effect of the weapons tested at the Eniwetok Test Site at Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls, and focused on these studies for over twelve years. After a 1954 accident when a weapon detonated at Bikini Atoll and contaminated a Japanese fishing vessel and the Rongelap atoll in the Eastern Marshall Islands, the laboratory studied the contamination of fish in the surrounding waters and on native foods at Rongelap. These studies expanded to include detailed investigations of the ecology of Rongelap. In 1957 the contract with the Atomic Energy Commission was expanded to develop a cooperative laboratory with the state of Washington Department of Game at Fern Lake in Kitsap County.

In 1958 the name of the Applied Fisheries Laboratory changed to Laboratory of Radiation Biology, and in 1966 that name changed to Laboratory of Radiation Ecology. It continued as a division of the Fisheries Research Institute until approximately 1987.


Arrangement

Arranged in two accessions:


Scope and Content

This record group documents the administration and research projects of the Applied Fisheries Laboratory, later known as the Laboratory of Radiation Biology and then the Laboratory of Radiation Ecology, at the University of Washington. Records include documentation of studies of the Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls, the Marshall Islands, the Columbia River, and Fern Lake, among many other locations. Included are correspondence, reports, writings, subject files, logs, photographs and slides, trip files, convention and conference files, and ephemera.


Restrictions on Access

The records are open to all users; however, access to records that are exempt from public disclosure is restricted. Contact the Special Collections division of the University of Washington Libraries for details.


Restrictions on Use

These are public records; use is unrestricted when access is granted.


Preferred Citation

University of Washington, Laboratory of Radiation Ecology records. Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington.


Inventory

 
Accession No. 90-060
University of Washington, Laboratory of Radiation Ecology records, 1948-1984 (Bulk: 1965-1980)
14 cubic feet (14 boxes)
Location: V0043a - V0045b
Arrangement
Arranged by type of document.
Scope and Content
The bulk of the accession consists of documentation of the experiments and research of the laboratory. Included are writings and reports on many topics, including radiation near the Pacific atolls, Columbia River radioecology, and pollutants in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Also includes project files on the Fern Lake Project, Project Chariot, and the Marshall Islands. Other records include administrative records, conference and convention records, committee records from the University of Washington College of Fisheries, and photographs of research specimens and sites.
Restrictions on Access
These are public records. Public disclosure laws may restrict access to some records.
Acquisition Info
Received from Tom Sibley in April 1990.
Processing Info
Partially processed in 2000 by Jamie Wamsley.
Box/Folder Date
Administrative Records1948-1981
1/1Historical Information1981
1/2Organizational Information1966-1970
1/3-4Incoming Letters1972-1979
1/5-18Outgoing Letters1967-1980
General Correspondence
1/19Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories1973-1980
1/20Regarding Christmas Island Trip1975-1977
1/21Correspondence of Donaldson, Lauren R.1948-1956
1/22Holmes and Narver1979
1/23International Atomic Energy Agency1972-1979
1/24Lawrence Livermore Laboratory1973-1980
1/25Mid-Pacific Marine Laboratory1977-1978
1/26Regarding Radiological Sciences1978-1979
1/27-28Schell, William Raymond 1968-1980
Scope and Content: Contains personal and personnel information.
1/29Regarding UNESCO, WESTPAC, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Task Team on Marine Pollution1979-1980
1/30U.S. Agriculture Department1967-1976
1/31-32U.S. Atomic Energy Commission1971-1975
2/1U.S. Commerce Department / NOAA1976-1979
2/2U.S. Energy Department1977-1980
2/3U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration1975-1978
2/4-5Washington State University, Nuclear Radiation Center1972-1978
2/6Miscellaneous A-Z1976-1977
Interdepartmental Correspondence
2/7University of Washington Environmental Health and Safety1968-1977
2/8University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine1976-1978
2/9University of Washington, Washington Energy Research Center1980
2/10Regarding Water Quality Cost Center1975-1977
2/11-12Miscellaneous1966-1980
Intradepartmental Correspondence
2/13Regarding Marine Sciences College1980
2/14-18Miscellaneous1971-1981
2/19Minutes - University of Washington, College of Fisheries1978-1980
Reports
2/20Annual Reports - L.R.E.1974-1979
2/21Annual Reports - College of Fisheries1962-1977
2/22Annual Report on Benthic Marine Invertebrates of the Chukchi Sea, Project Chariot1960
2/23Annual Reports - Laboratory of Radiation Ecology1967-1978
2/24Progress Reports - Effects of Irradiation, Temperature, and Other Environmental Factors on Salmanoid Embryos1968
2/25Progress Report of the Laboratory of Radiation Biology1959
2/26Radiation Dosimetry Reports1976-1980
3/1Scripps Annual Report1971-1972
3/2Field Trip Reports1961-1978
3/3Trip Report1960-1976
3/4Trip Report - Eniwetok Program1972
3/5Trip Report - Project Chariot1960-1964
3/6Foreign Travel Report1963
11/37Financial Records1978-1979
11/38Newsletters1980
11/39News Releases1972, 1979
11/40Notes1979, undated
11/41List1974
11/42Research Results1972-1980
11/43Research Directives1972-1979
11/44Telephone Logs1972
11/45Cruise Plans and Proposals1969-1977
Speeches, Writings, and Reports1950-1980
From Projects
Project Chariot
3/71961 Salmon Survey, Project Chariot1962
3/8Criteria for Chariot Radiological Survey1960
3/9Future Use of Atomic Energy, Project Chariot, Alaska1960
3/10List of Fishes from the Vicinity of Project Chariot1959
3/11Salmon Resource in the Vicinity of the Chariot Project1959
3/12Salmon Resource in the Vicinity of the Chariot Site1960
Fern Lake Project
3/13Cooperative Research Program for the Fern Lake - Rocky Creek Watershed1957
3/14Fern Lake Geologic Study1959
3/15Fern Lake Trace Mineral Metabolism Program1959
3/16Limnology of Fern Lake1965
3/17Use of Radioisotopes in the Fern Lake Program1964
Marshall Islands Projects
3/18Bikini Report1951
3/19Carapus Homei (Richardson) in a Sea Cucumber from the Marshall Islands1960
3/20Description of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Distribution in Some Atoll Land Ecosystems1964
3/21Distribution of Radioisotopes among Marine Organisms in the Western Central Pacific1959
3/22Iron55 in Rongelap People, Fish and Soils1971
3/23Key to the Land Plants of Rongelap Atoll1959
3/24Nitrogen Studies of Rongelap Atoll Soils1961
3/25Occurrence of Bismuth207 at Eniwetok Atoll1962
3/26Plutonium and Americum in Soils of Bikini Atoll Islands1975
3/27Qualitative Distribution of Radionuclides at Rongelap Atoll1963
3/28Radiocesium in Plants Grown on Rongelap Atoll Soils1961
3/29Radiobiological Studies at the Eniwetok Test Site and Adjacent Areas of the Western Pacific1959
3/30Radiological Resurvey of Animals, Soils, and Groundwater at Atoll, 1969-701971
3/31Relationships Between Atolls and Benthic Algae1957
3/32Silver108m in the Biota and Sediments at Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls1971
3/33Soils of Rongelap Atoll, Marshall Islands1962
Miscellaneous
3/34Accumulation and Loss of Zinc65 by Oysters in a Natural Environment1966
3/35Autoradiography of Sectioned Soil Cores1965
3/36Debris from the Chinese Atomic Test of May 1965 Intercepted over the Northwestern United States1966
3/37Detection and Measurement of Low-Intensity Nuclear Radiation1964
3/38Difference in Uptake of Radioisotopes by Marine and Terrestrial Organisms1961
3/39Distribution of Zinc65 in Plankton from Offshore Waters of Washington and Oregon, 1961-19631965
3/40Effect of Rotenone on Zooplankton Populations in Freshwater Lakes1963
3/41Effects of Radiation on Aquatic Organisms1957
3/42Effects of Temperature upon the Formation of Vertebrae and Fin Rays in Young Chinook Salmon1959
3/43Electron-Microscope Studies of Drosophila Salivary-Gland Chromosomes1956
3/44Electron-Microscope Studies of Silver Salmon Spermatozoa1953
3/45Evaluation of Radioactivity in the Marine Environment of the Pacific Proving Groundundated
3/46Exchange of Zinc with Environmental Solutions by the Brown Bullhead1961
3/47Factors Controlling the Distribution of The Rare Earths in the Environment and in Living Organisms1963
3/48Fallout in the Ocean1959
3/49Fallout Nuclides in the Marine Environment, Summary of Reports1961
3/50Fallout Radionuclides in Pacific Ocean Tuna1971
3/51Fish and Radioactivity1960
3/52Growth and Fecundity of Rainbow Trout Exposed to Single Sublethal Doses of X-Rays during the Eyed Embryo Stage1971
3/53Increase in Radioresistance of Fish to Lethal Doses with Advancing Embryonic Development1963
3/54Iron and Cobalt in Ecology1963
3/55Isotopic Exchange of Zinc65 from Zinc Chloride onto Clay1963
3/56Joint Statement, Second Meeting of Japan - United States Scientists on Environmental Monitoring of 1962 Nuclear Weapons Tests1962
3/57Lead210 Production by Nuclear Devices, 1946-581969
3/58Lead and Mercury in Aquatic Environments1971
3/59Long Term Release of Radioactivity from Rainier Melt-Glass1971
3/60Lutetium177 in Environmental and Biological Samples1961
3/61Meeting of American Representatives with Scientists from the Japanese RV Shoyo Maru1962
3/62Moulting Behavior of Birgus Latro1963
3/63Mineral Cycling in a Douglas Fir Forest Stand1965
3/64Nickel63 in Marine and Terrestrial Biota, Soil and Sediment1969
3/65Plutonium in Aqueous Systems1974
3/66Preconception for Trace Analysis of Sea Waters1967
3/67Preliminary Note on X-Ray Diffraction Studies with the Tails of Spermatozoa of Silver Salmon1955
3/68Program for Education and Research Needed in Radiation Biology in the Expanded Federal Effort1961
3/69Publications (Reprints)1975-1979
3/70Radiation Effects1971
3/71Radioecology of Aquatic Organisms, Book Review1968
3/72Radioisotope X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry in Aquatic Biology: A Review1971
3/73Radiological Analyses of Marine Organisms1966
3/74Radionuclides at the Deep Water Disposal Sites...1980
3/75Radionuclides in Foods from the Central Pacific, 19621966
3/76Radionuclides in Plankton and Tuna from the Central Pacific1963
3/77Retention and Translocation of Radioactive Zinc by Salmon Fingerlings1961
3/78Salmon Resource, The1966
3/79Salmon Stock Identification Using a Micro Analytical Technique to Measure Elements Present in the Central Portion of Scales1978
3/80Some Aspects of the Biology of Zirconium 951963
3/81Some Tests with Experimental Groups of Fingerling Rainbow Trout1950
3/82Stable and Radioactive Zinc in Wallapa Bay1963
3/83Stock Identification Using X-Ray Spectrometry and Multivariate Techniquesundated
3/84Symposium on Radioecology, Book Review1969
3/85The Twentieth Yearundated
3/86Uptake and Translocation of Radioisotopes in Plants1965
3/87Use of Radioisotopes and Radiation to Study Plant and Animal Life in Fresh and Marine Waters1961
3/88Use of Radioisotopes as a Tag for Fishundated
3/89X-Rays and Temperature: Combined Effects on Mortality and Growth of Salmon Embryos1971
From Individuals
3/90Beasley, Thomas1969-1971
3/91Nelson, Victor A.1971-1976
3/92Nevissi, Ahmad1975-1976
4/1-2Schell, William R.1971-1979
4/3Seymour, Allyn1968-1973
Project Files1946-1984
13 Atoll
4/4General Correspondence1978-1980
4/5Minutes1980
Reports
4/6Progress Reportundated
4/7Trip Report1978
4/8Financial Records1979-1980
4/9Proposal1978-1980
4/10Contracts1979-1980
4/11Research Directives1979
4/12Research Results1979-1980
Subject Files
4/13DCD Information1979
4/14-15Price Rate Materials1978-1979
4/16Technical Information1978
Amchitka
4/17Biographical Information1969-1978, undated
4/18-21General Correspondence1970-1979
Reports
4/22Annual Progress Report1971-1972
4/23Aquatic Studies1969-1973
4/24Cumulative Progress Report1969-1971
4/25Long Term Effects Monitoring Program, Amchitka Island1971-1972
4/26-28Progress Reports1977-1979
4/29Quarterly Progress Reports1971-1973
4/30Task Force Report1974
4/31Terrestrial Studies1972-1976
5/1Trip Reports1971-1977
Speeches and Writings
5/2Fallout Radionuclides in Amchitka Island Marine and Freshwater Environments1972
5/3Miscellaneousundated
5/4Collection/Transfer Permits for Plants and Soil1974-1977
5/5Research Results1978, undated
5/6Sample Analyses1979, undated
5/7Notebooks1972-1979
Lists
5/8Field Equipment1978
5/9Sampling Locations1968-1978
5/10Species Checklist1967-1972
5/11Carbon Geochemistry1981-1982
Columbia River Radioecology
Reports
5/12Progress Report1961
5/13Trip Reports1961-1972
Writings
5/14Gamma-Emitting Radionuclides in Dover Sole Caught off the Mouth of the Columbia River1965
5/15A Program to Study the Radionuclides in Water, Bottom and Biological Samples from Near the Mouth of the Columbia River1960
5/16Proposal1967-1972
DSHS Radiation Analysis
5/17Contracts1980
5/18Research Results1980
5/19Technical Information and Reports1978-1979
Distribution Coefficients
5/20-21General Correspondence1976-1981
Reports
5/22-26Annual Progress Reports1976-1980
5/27Final Summary Report1981
5/28Interim Report1978
5/29Quarterly Progress Report1979-1980
5/30-31Speeches and Writingsundated
5/32Financial Records1979-1980
5/33Proposal1980-1981
5/34Project Briefs1978
5/35Computer Systems Information1978-1979
5/36-41Contracts1976-1981
Heavy Metals
6/1General Correspondence1975-1977
Reports
6/2-3Final Report1975-1976
6/4Technical Information and Reports1975
Writings
6/5Environmental Sampling and Analysis for Trace Metals in Puget Sound1975
6/6Heavy Metals from Waste Disposal, Central Puget Sound1975
6/7Miscellaneous1977-1978
6/8Financial Records1974-1979
6/9-10Proposal1973-1976
6/11-13Contracts1974-1976
Inhaled Aerosols
6/14General Correspondence1977-1980
6/15Financial Records1977
6/16Proposal1977
6/17Contracts1978-1980
6/18Research Results1978-1980
Johnston Atoll
6/19General Correspondence1966-1977
Reports
6/20Annual Reports1966-1976
6/21Trip Reports1968-1976
6/22Financial Records1980
6/23-29Proposal1970-1976
6/30Contracts1979-1984
Lake Union Sediments
6/31General Correspondence1975-1976
6/32Reports1975
6/33Proposal1973-1975
6/34Technical Information and Reportsundated
Lead Pollution
6/35General Correspondence1969-1974
Reports
6/36Annual Progress Report1971-1972
6/37Progress Report1971
6/38Technical Information Reports1970-1972
6/39-7/4Proposal1970-1973
7/5Contracts1969-1973
7/6Administrative Information1972-1974
Longshot
7/7General Correspondence1965-1969
Reports
7/8-9Technical Operations Plan1965
7/10Trip Report1965
7/11Miscellaneous1965
7/12Speeches and Writings1966
7/13Financial Records1964-1965
7/14Meeting Notes1965
7/15Daily Logs1964-1966
7/16Safety Regulations1964-1965
7/17Telephone Log1965-1966
7/18Mapsundated
7/19Clippings1965-1966
New York Creeks
7/20General Correspondence1978-1981
Reports
7/21Annual Progress Report1978-1979
7/22Progress Reports1979-1981
7/23-26Quarterly Progress Reports1979-1981
7/27Sediment and Radionuclide Transport in Rivers1979
7/28Financial Records1979-1980
7/29Proposal1978-1981
7/30Contracts1978-1981
7/31Research Directives1979
7/32Research Results1978-1980
8/1Mapsundated
8/2Tablesundated
Pacific Radioecology
8/3-4General Correspondence1974-1980
Reports
8/5-6Annual Reports1976-1977
8/7Progress Report1977
8/8Radiological Survey of Plants, Animals, and Soil in Micronesia, November 19751978
8/9Financial Records1978-1979
8/10-13Proposal1976-1980
8/14Proposal Instructions1972-1973
8/15-16Contracts1966-1981
8/17Bibliography1946-1978
8/18Manuscript List1968-1971
8/19Research Results1979
8/20Subject File - Form 1891977-1979
Pollutants in Sewage
8/21General Correspondence1979-1980
8/22Financial Records1980
8/23Research Directives1979
8/24Research Results1979-1980
Pollution Dynamics
8/25General Correspondence1976-1979
8/26Proposal1975-1977
Prudhoe Bay
8/27General Correspondence1979-1980
Reports
8/28Histopathological Report1979
8/29First Progress Report1979
8/30Second Progress Report1979
8/31Third Progress Report1980
8/32Miscellaneous1979
8/33Financial Records1979-1980
Speeches and Writings
8/34Regarding Sediment Toxicity1979-1980
8/35Safe Practices and Training Manualundated
8/36Technical Plan Beaufort Sea Drilling Effluent Disposal Study1979
8/37-9/4Toxicity of Drilling Fluids to Marine Organisms in the Beaufort Sea, Alaska1979-1980
9/5Waterflood Project Volume 1: Engineering1979
9/6Waterflood Project Volume 2: Environmental1979
9/7Bibliographyundated
9/8-9Daily Log and Catch Data1979
9/10-11Scientific Data1964
9/12Manuscript1980
9/13-14Laboratory Notebooks1979
9/15Notebooks1979
9/16Transparenciesundated
9/17Tablesundated
Notes
9/18Field Notes1979
9/19-20Notes of the Day, C Program, Data1979
9/21Miscellaneous1979
Subject Files
9/22Bioassay Results1979
9/23Chemical Lab Verification1979
9/24Computer Manipulation1979
10/1Frozen Sampling Inventory1979
10/2Future Nortec Workundated
10/3Live Boxesundated
10/4Mud Source for Bioassay1979
10/5Probit Analysis1979
10/6Prudhoe Collection Permit1979
10/7Sag River1980
Pycnocline Vertical Mixing
10/8General Correspondence1978-1980
Reports
10/9Final Project Report1979-1980
10/10Progress Reports1979-1980
10/11Financial Records1978
10/12-14Proposal1977-1979
10/15Contracts1978-1980
10/16Subject File - Graduate School Funds1980-1981
"Radioiso Sea Organisms"
10/17General Correspondence1970-1974
10/18Report1969-1974
10/19-22Proposal1968-1974
10/23Contracts1969-1977
10/24Administrative Information1969-1974
10/25Drawingsundated
10/26Technical Information and Reports1972-1973, undated
Radionuclides Study
10/27General Correspondence1970-1975
Reports
10/28-33Annual Progress Reports1970-1977
10/34Technical Information Reports1971-1973
10/35Trip Report1973
10/36-38Proposal1969-1977
10/39-40Renewal1971-1977
11/1Special Equipment1972
11/2-3Contracts1970-1975
11/4Contract - Bikini-Eniwetok Supplement1972
11/5Administrative Information1970-1975
11/6Research Results1976
11/7Plant and Soil Transport Records1974-1976
11/8Charts and Graphs1980
11/9Manuscript List1971-1976
Sources and Sinks
11/10General Correspondence1978
11/11Proposal1977-1978
Trace Contaminants
11/12General Correspondence1974-1977
11/13Report - Elliott Bay Dredge Disposal Project1977
11/14Proposal1975
11/15Contracts1975-1976
11/16Technical Information and Reports1975
11/17Trace Metals1976-1978
Conference and Convention Files1971-1980
11/1835th Northwest - 5th Biennial Rocky Mountain Joint Regional Meeting1980
11/19Announcements1973-1975
11/20Consultant's Meeting for the Co-ordination of WMO Background Air Pollution Monitoring...1977
11/21ERDA West Coast Marine Workshop1976
11/22Ecosystem Processes and Organic Contaminants Workshop1975
11/23Environmental Resources Conference: Cycling and Control of Metals1972
11/24Fourth National Symposium on Radioecology1975
11/25International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment1975
11/26International Symposium on the Multi-Media Global Monitoring of Environmental Pollution1978
11/27Marshall Island Workshop1977
11/28Mid-Pacific Marine Lab Workshop1979
11/29Second Annual Life Sciences Symposium: "Plutonium - Health Implications for Man"1974
11/30Second International Dumping Symposium1980
11/31Symposium on the Interaction of Radioactive Contaminants with the Constituents of the Marine Environment1972
11/32Symposium on Transuranium Nuclides in the Environment1975
11/33Third National Symposium on Radioecology1971
11/34Tritium Symposium1971
11/35Workshop on Environmental Research for the Transuranium Elements1975
11/36Miscellaneous1971-1977
Subject Files1962-1981
11/46Argon Sampling1971-1972
11/47Bikini Trip, WRS1972
11/48British Columbia Department of Environment, Marine Plants Section1979-1980
11/49Classification Information1972
11/50Computer1973-1974
11/51Consultations1979-1980
11/52Contract Status Report1975-1981