On Great Gull Island off Orient Point, Dr. Samuel S. Sadove of Southampton College led a team of researchers early this month on a field study to observe the seals.
Then Mrs. d'Allessandro and Mr. de Braun discussed the best strategy for heading through the trickiest section of the course, the Plum Gut off Orient Point.
Although some harbor seals can be found at Montauk Point, Mr. Penny said, many more winter on uninhabited Great Gull Island, off Orient Point.
On Great Gull Island off Orient Point, Dr. Samuel S. Sadove, center inset, of Southampton College led a team of researchers to observe the seals recently.
Plum Island, off Orient Point, Long Island, is a highly secure installation and the only place in the United States where researchers are allowed to work with foot-and-mouth virus.
He said there had been no risk to humans or animals inside or outside the laboratory, which is on Plum Island, a mile and a half off Orient Point.
The Plum Island laboratory, operated by Homeland Security and located about a mile and a half off Orient Point on the North Fork, will remain a center for research into the disease and by law is the only location in the United States where live foot and mouth virus may be kept.
While Kansas is a center for cattle raising in the United States, Plum Island is in close proximity to a national center of human population -- a mile and a half off Orient Point, with crowded Long Island and then New York City to its west, and Connecticut, Rhode Island, and then Boston to its north.
Fermi electrical engineer Jim Zagel, who campaigned for him, suspects that Foster's professional background may have turned off religiously oriented constituents.
First off, he orients us to our surroundings by quoting "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
