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Monday, May 13, 1991


Daily Digest


[Page: D571]

Senate


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Committee Meetings


(Committees not listed did not meet)

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ARCTIC-ANTARCTIC ENVIRONMENT


Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space held hearings to examine environmental problems in the Arctic and the Antarctic, focusing on the need to reduce environmental damage caused by certain United States activities in the Antarctic, and how the U.S. could effectively contribute to monitoring efforts in the Arctic, receiving testimony from E. U. Curtis Bohlen, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, International Environmental, and Scientific Affairs; Robert W. Corell, Assistant Director of Geosciences, and Peter Wilkniss, Director, Division of Polar Programs, both of the National Science Foundation; Robert C. Worrest, Program Manager, Global Change Research Program, Environmental Protection Agency; Claire L. Parkinson and Robert Bindschadler, both of Oceans and Ice Branch, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Will Steger, International Polar Expeditions, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Will Martin, Wilderness Society, Jim Barnes, Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, both of Washington, D.C.; and Wallace S. Broecker, Columbia University, Palisades, New York.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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