How rapidly are we loading our marine and land environments with small viable and non-viable particles. Paper presented at American Public Health Association Meeting, Houston Texas, October 27, 1970.

Over the past 5 years, air and sea water analyses in the Atlantic Ocean and along the East Coast of the U.S.A. have been made. Of interest have been the particles in the bacterial and colloida particle range. The data show that sea water loading is extremely show, however atmospheric loading is rapid enough to be discernible. The average count can be shown to be increasing in the atmosphere at a statistically significant rate.