;37 - I love to travel and meet new people . st Lawrence island is one of those places - it’s hard to get to even for Alaskans . The community is hard to get invited to come here. You can’t show up uninvited -t here’s no hotels or places to stay. Doing a project here - it’s a special place to get to and not many people are able to visit. INTV - JWA 9709 - Frank von Hippel 3;18 - unfortunately Alaska has around 700 active and abandoned military installations. Just about all of them are associated with contamination with the environment. JWA 9709 - Frank von Hippel 1;58 - quite a lot of clean up has happened here and the army corps of engineers has decided that it’s cleaned up and // JWA 9709 - Frank von Hippel 5;08 - we’re finding with this research is that even though the cleanup is over -the fish are still contaminated with pcbs a INTV 9707 - loren buck 4;19 - INTV when you’re here - there’s no going back to the lab to go and get more supplies. So everything you arrive with is what you’ve got to survive with. INTV - 9707 - loren buck 3;34 - fish - if they’re showing signs of endocrine disruption - humans would show the same thing. And on an island - one that is shared with the fish by native indigenous people - they’re exposed to the same contaminated environment. 8872 - My name is Daniel Dillon (SP?) (with her mosquito net on) - I’m a research professional at university of Alaska anchorage. We are here on beautiful St Lawrence island and we are collecting blackfish and sickle back to look at the presence of contaminates and the gene expression. Hopefully they’ll be somewhat related to those contaminates. SOT - 8871 - (while cutting fish) so....this is what we have to do for every single blackfish JWA 9709 - Frank von Hippel 5;27 - we’re finding their hormone systems are disrupted. We’re finding males are all producing egg yolk protein. Males shouldn’t be producing egg yolk protein. They produce it because they’re exposed to contaminants that mimic estrogen Or *** 9710 - John Postlethwait 1;19 - our outhouse is particularly notable - when you’re out here - you don’t have a flush toilet. It’s flat and there’s no bushes. Visually - you can’t get away. We erected a tent - and put a port a potty there in the tent and the wind then has been whipping across the tent and whipping it around - and it’s not all that private when the wind is doing that.... (goes on.... *** 9710 - John Postlethwait there’s two things going on... one is these point sources of military federally funded military sites, 4;30 — but then you have this global situation where you have compounds that are relatively light come up into the atmosphere and then are transported to the north. // In a way it doesn’t seem fair - they’re not making those substances - but they’re suffering the brunt of it. 9713: Lauren Smayda interview 9;12 - sitting on the ground and hunching over like this - hurts my back a lot. The tundra if it’s not wet - can be quite comfortable. So I just laid down and set up my cutting board and cut up my fish and became quite efficient at that method.