Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster on Marine Animals Along the Coast of...
The purpose of this diary is to share the results of a recently published, peer reviewed, study that examined the radiological impact of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) meltdowns on...
View ArticleContamination of freshwater fish by the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Overview...
The purpose of this diary is to report the results of a monitoring study looking for Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) derived contamination in freshwater fishes in Japan. The peer...
View ArticleUpdate: Tracking the arrival of Fukushima derived contamination in the...
This short diary summarizes new data from 2014 and 2015 reporting results from the Integrated Fukushima Ocean Radionuclide Monitoring (InFORM) project and our partner organization Our Radioactive Ocean...
View ArticleExternal ionizing radiation doses of high school students in Japan, France,...
The purpose of this diary to report on a peer-reviewed, open access study published in the Journal of Radiological Protection where high-school aged citizen scientists measured and compared the...
View ArticleKelpWatch 2015 Monitoring: No Fukushima derived contamination May - June '15
The purpose of this diary is to report the most recent results of Kelp Watch 2015, a program dedicated to monitoring for Fukushima derived contamination along the Pacific Coast of North America. This...
View ArticleThe Impact of Fukushima on Canada: Comprehensive Health Canada Report Released
The purpose of this diary is to bring to the attention of interested readers a recently released report that provides comprehensive account of the environmental radiation surveillance activities...
View ArticleCalling All Sailor Citizen Scientists: The Indigo V Project
This is a quick diary to draw your attention to another useful citizen science initiative I have been involved with recently. Indigo V Expeditions is a project headed up by Dr. Federico Lauro and...
View ArticleCoho Salmon Returning to the Quinsam River on Vancouver Island
The purpose of this short diary is to bring to your attention some beautiful video of Pacific Salmon coming home to British Columbia this past year. Eiko Jones is a photographer who specializes in...
View ArticleField Observations Show Decline of Japan's Intertidal Biota Near Site of the...
The purpose of this post is to report on a newly published, peer-reviewed study in the open access journal Scientific Reports that uses field observations to determine how intertidal species abundance...
View ArticleUpdate: InFORM Monitoring Results For Pacific Salmon Collected Summer 2015
Measurements undertaken as part of the InFORM project to look for Fukushima derived radionuclides in fish during our second of three years of monitoring are now complete on an additional 156 fish....
View ArticleFukushima's Impact on North America: Tsunami debris, invasive species and...
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....
View ArticleFukushima contamination of Pacific Salmon: Lessons learned in the Atlantic Ocean
The purpose of this post is to present measurements of artificial radionuclides in wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) made in 1990’s and reported in a peer reviewed paper published in the Canadian...
View ArticleUpdate: Looking for Fukushima Contamination In North American Coastal Waters
The purpose of this short post is to provide an update on the activities of the InFORM project which is conducting a scientifically rigorous monitoring program to determine the impact of the Fukushima...
View ArticleOpen Access Review of Fukushima Radionuclide Source Term, Fate and Impact in...
The purpose of this post is to bring to the attention of readers here a review of the available measurements and science based investigations of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) and...
View ArticleJuly Update: Looking for Fukushima Contamination in Canadian Coastal Waters
This blog is based on a full report prepared by Dr. Jonathan Kellogg of the InFORM project that can be found here. Animation of InFORM coastal monitoring results with the latest data (March and April...
View ArticleUpdate: 2016 Sampling of North American Pacific Kelp Finds No Signature of...
The purpose of this diary is to report the most recent and last results from Kelp Watch 2015, a program dedicated to monitoring for Fukushima derived contamination along the Pacific Coast of North...
View ArticleUndergraduate Scientists Account of Fukushima Monitoring Work in North...
One the rewarding aspects of being an academic is working with young scientists who are being introduced to oceanographic fieldwork and the nuts and bolts of research. The following post was written...
View ArticleNo Detectable Fukushima Contamination in Alaskan Fish in Early 2016
Limited sampling in early 2016 by the Alaskan Department of Environmental Conservation failed to detect evidence of Fukushima derived contamination in commercially important fish species. While only 7...
View ArticleCitizen Science Update August 2016: More Than 250 Coastal Seawater Samples...
This post is based on a summary provided by Dr. Jonathan Kellogg at the InFORM website. This post continues a series dedicated to provide the most sound, scientifically derived information on the...
View ArticleUpdate on Fukushima Related Science Communication
The purpose of this post is to update the community here on the outcome of legal proceedings that I have been preoccupied with as of late. I wanted to thank the Daily Kos community for their support...
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