Show Oil Spill Research Seeks Information For Energy Planning The effects of oil spills on marine life will be the subject of a new environmental research research re re- search project sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute Institutes The project will get underway underway underway under under- way in May in the West Falmouth Falmouth Falmouth Fal- Fal mouth area of Buzzards Bay M Mass ass site of a t 1969 oil spill Skid away Institute of Oceanography Oceanography Ocean Ocean- Savannah Ga has been awarded the thc API con con- tract Professor James D. D Howard the projects project's principal Investigator investigator investigator gator says the purpose of the study is to help determine the specific effects of an oil spill on the community of organisms organisms organisms orga orga- living in the sediment at atthe atthe atthe the bottom bollom of a body ody of water and how long such effects will last The project is part of the APIs API's 16 million oil spill re research research research re- re search program for 1975 designed designed designed de de- de- de signed to help supply the industry and the nation with information necessary necessary necessary sary to formulate energy and environmental policies |