An overview of the GEEP Workshop

Abstract

This paper reviews the main highhghts of the GEEP Workshop, both ~t s successes and fallures draws conclus~ons from these and from lessons learnt In convening and participahng in the workshop, and suggests a way forward for research and apphcat~on of biological effects techn~ques We p o ~n t to the Importance of maintaining close links between the research effort and the evaluation of procedures that emerge, In the context of a wide spectrum of climat~c and environmental reglmes The utll~ty of measures of b~ological responses to pollution will depend on the extent to which a suite of such measurements can be put together so as to link In a cause/effect manner the results of chemical analyses and responses at the b~ochemical, cellular physiological, population and community levels Some hopeful trends and some basic difficulhes are lndlcated We suggest that further pract~cal workshops on the same model as the GEEP Workshop but held in different climatic reglons and with different faunas ~1 1 1 play an essential part in further~ng the development of techniques for measunng the biological effects of pollutants