This text contains 28 papers from 12 countries that reflect the current state-of-the-art in the early 1990s of: modelling in loading, fatigue and IMR strategy, and more than 50% of the papers originate from authors based in industry or government departments.

This volume contains the lectures presented at the NATO sponsored conference on "Marine Natural Products" held in Jersey, Channel Islands, U. K., October 12-17, 1976. The intent of the organising committee was to encourage a dialogue between organic chemists who study the metabolites of marine organisms and biolo gists, ecologists, and pharmacologists who study the effects of these metabolites on other organisms. A feature of the conference was the three workshop sessions on chemotaxonomy, applications of marine natural products, and chemical communication. The papers presented at the...