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Ken Buesseler checking the rosette sampler prior to deployment.

Ken Buesseler checking the rosette sampler prior to deployment.
Ken Buesseler checking the rosette sampler prior to deployment.
Ken Buesseler checking the rosette sampler prior to deployment.
Ken Buesseler checking the rosette sampler prior to deployment.
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Kostel, Ken
Ken Buesseler checking the rosette sampler prior to deployment.
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06/06/2011
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Image of The Day caption:
Marine chemist Ken Buesseler (left) and University of Hawaii technician Paul Balch make a final inspection of a rosette sampler prior to deploying the instrument. Buesseler organized the cruise aboard the R/V Ka'imikai-O-Kanaloa to trace the path of radiation released from the tsunami-battered nuclear reactor in Fukushima, Japan. The group of 17 physical, chemical, and biological oceanographers on board spent two weeks in June taking water, air, and biological samples in an effort to understand the fate and impacts of radiation in the northwest Pacific.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 50, No. 1, page 6:
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...
Photo by Ken Kostel
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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