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Water sample being extracted on deck from a sampling rosette.

Water sample being extracted on deck from a sampling rosette.
Water sample being extracted on deck from a sampling rosette.
Water sample being extracted on deck from a sampling rosette.
Water sample being extracted on deck from a sampling rosette.
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Kostel, Ken
Water sample being extracted on deck from a sampling rosette.
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06/08/2011
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Image Of the Day caption:
In the weeks after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in 2011, WHOI geochemist Ken Buesseler organized an expedition with scientists from different fields and institutions to investigate radioisotopes from the damaged plant that ended up in the ocean and marine life. They used nets to sample organisms and instruments such as this one to collect more than 1,500 water samples in 30 locations off Japan. Water and biological samples were sent to 16 labs in seven countries to detect levels of a variety of radioisotopes. Buesseler has continued to track the spread of Fukushima radioactive contaminants in the ocean and beaches for years after the accident.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 50, No. 1, page 7:
In the weeks after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Ken Buesseler (far left), a marine chemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, organized an expedition with scientists from different fields and institutions to investigate radioisotopes from the damaged nuclear plant that ended up in the ocean and marine life. They used nets to sample organisms and instruments such as the one at right to collect more than 1,500 water samples in 30 locations off Japan. Water and biological samples were sent to 16 labs in seven countries to detect levels of a variety of radioisotopes.
Photo by Ken Kostel
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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