On March 7 I participated in a public with John Bolton (film maker) and Dr. Cathryn Clarke Murray (biologist) to discuss how the Fukushima nuclear disaster has affected the coast of British Columbia. John Bolton is an award-winning filmmaker who lives in Vancouver. He showed his most recent film, a documentary called DEBRIS, about Tofino, BC-based “intertidal artist” Pete Clarkson who is working to transform objects from Japan into meaningful works of art and remembrance. Dr. Murray is a biologist who works with the scientific organization PICES and is studying the marine organisms from the western Pacific that have hitched a ride with the debris to our shores. I provide a brief update about the most recent monitoring results from the InFORM project which is dedicated to carrying out a radiological health impact assessment of the disaster along the west coast.
If you would like to watch John’s film DEBRIS you can view it until March 13 at the National Film Board of Canada site here. I found it quite moving and fitting tribute to those lost in the tsunami on March 11, 2011.
You can watch our presentations and question and answer session below.
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