Coastal Communities Challenge Information ?Black Hole? On Fukushima Radiation

[Emily]

http://earthfix.opb.org/water/article/coastal-communities-challenge-information-black-ho/

Coastal Communities Challenge Information ?Black Hole? On Fukushima Radiation
June 26, 2014 | Statesman Journal
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Altogether about 30 sites, from Alaska to Baja, Calif., have been funded, said Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who put together the project, called ?How Radioactive is Our Ocean??

It uses crowd-sourced money and volunteers to collect water samples along the Pacific Coast, then ship them to Buesseler in Massachusetts to be analyzed on an $80,000 instrument.
Radioactivity Monitoring

Each sample costs $550 to $600, depending on location.

?I really hope everybody gets together so we can fund Woods Hole to do more of these,? Adams said. ?There?s a big black hole where information should be.?..

 

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Re: Coastal Communities Challenge Information ?Black Hole? On Fukushima Radiation

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/10/citizen-scientists-monitor-pacific-for-fukushima-radiation-/20226619/

Citizen scientists test Pacific for Fukushima radiation
Tracy Loew, USA TODAY 1:39 a.m. EST December 11, 2014
SALEM, Ore.

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But in the absence of federal monitoring, citizens such as Waldron have taken it upon themselves test for its arrival on beaches.

"My husband surfs a lot. He lived in Newport for 12 years before we met," Waldron said. "He has cancer, and we eat a lot of fish. I have a lot of reasons to want to conduct a test like this."

Waldron's sampling site is the fourth in Oregon and joins more than three dozen from the Gulf of Alaska to San Diego.

Woods Hole chemical oceanographer Ken Buesseler runs the project, called Our Radioactive Ocean, from his lab in Massachusetts...