Strategies and Advanced Techniques for Marine Pollution Studies 70174 Stuttgart Edinburgh (Great Britain van Oystaeyen Edinburgh (Great Britain and Edgar Dijkstra have advanced the position that computing is a mathematical activity and that computer science should model itself after mathematics The challenge to scientists engaged in research into marine contamination and pollution is to weld the chemical and biological elements together (always with reference also to the physical features of the environment) so as to provide a coherent framework for the quantitative evaluation of environmental response although the biologist will usually have in mind a reference point of normality with which to compare the measured response