Accession Number:

ADA279575

Title:

Compilation of 1993 Annual Reports of the Navy ELF Communications System Ecological Monitoring Program

Descriptive Note:

Annual rept. Jan-Sep 1993

Corporate Author:

IIT RESEARCH INST CHICAGO IL

Personal Author(s):

• Zapotosky, J. E.

Report Date:

1994-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

405.0

Abstract:

During 1993, the U.S. Navy continued to conduct a program to monitor flora, fauna, and their ecological relationships for possible effects from electromagnetic EM fields produced by the Navys Extremely Low Frequently ELF Communications System. Physiological, developmental, behavioral, and ecological variables for dominant biota in upland and riverine habitats near the Naval Radio Transmitting Facility at Republic, Michigan NRTF-Republic have been monitored since 1982. The NRTF-Republic was intermittently energized at low amperages beginning in early 1986. Electric current and periods of energization were then gradually increased until 1989, when the transmitter became a fully operational facility. A split-plot or blocked strategy was used to examine biological variables for possible effects from EM exposure. Reports complied in this document present the progress of these studies through 1993. Final results and conclusions are expected after all data have been analyzed in 1994. Investigators for similar studies completed in Wisconsin concluded that there were no EM bioeffects from intermittent or full operation of the transmitter in that state

Descriptors:

• *ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES
• *COMMUNICATION AND RADIO SYSTEMS
• *ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
• *EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY
• *MONITORS
• ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
• REPORTS
• ECOLOGY
• NAVAL RESEARCH

Subject Categories:

• Ecology
• Electricity and Magnetism
• Radiation Pollution and Control
• Radio Communications

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE