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Steve Pike processing first water samples that arrived from the West coast.

Steve Pike processing first water samples that arrived from the West coast.
Steve Pike processing first water samples that arrived from the West coast.
Steve Pike processing first water samples that arrived from the West coast.
Steve Pike processing first water samples that arrived from the West coast.
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Kostel, Kenneth
Steve Pike processing first water samples that arrived from the West coast.
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02/18/2014
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The Center for Marine and Environmental Radioactivity (CMER) at WHOI, a private non-profit marine research and education organization, is launching a project to involve the public in gathering seawater samples and raising funds for analyses that will provide the latest information about radiation levels in the ocean. The data will be published on a website, How Radioactive is Our Ocean?
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WHOI research assistant Steve Pike unpacks some of the first water samples collected as part of a citizen-science initiative started by chemist Ken Buesseler to track the spread of radiation in the Pacific from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Our Radioactive Ocean is involving people from Alaska to San Diego and around Hawaii, and even some sailors who plan on crossing the Pacific, in the process of gathering samples and raising money to help support analysis for signs of radionuclides released after the plant was damaged by a tsunami in March 2011.
Photo by Ken Kostel
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http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=119836
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