Radioactivity In Our Ocean: Fukushima & Its Impact On The Pacific
The following presentation is for those interested in the most recent, scientifically rigorous, monitoring data related to the impact of the Fukushima Dai-ichi disaster on the health of North Pacific...
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Polar Bears and Research Equipment in the Arctic Ocean: You’re Going to Need...
By Jay T. Cullen and Kristin OriansThree polar bears swimming near the ship and investigating our sea cable in the Beaufort Sea, Arctic Ocean. Photo by Kristin Orians UBC.The picture you are looking at...
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Fukushima Derived Contamination of Whales and Dolphins in Northern Japan
Pacific white sided dolphinsThe purpose of this diary is to report on a recently published, peer-reviewed study documenting the contamination of whales and dolphins in northern Japan following the...
View ArticleUpdate: Polar Bears Tried to Eat My Homework
The video you are looking at was taken Sept. 16, 2015 by a UVic undergraduate student, Kathryn Purdon, who has been working with my group on the icebreaker CCGS Amundsen which is currently working in...
View ArticleIs There Scientific Evidence Showing Higher Incidence of Thyroid Cancer in...
The purpose of this short diary it to bring to the attention of readers a well researched and referenced YouTube video by Ian Goddard. A recently published study by Tsuda and colleagues in the...
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Residents Living South of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Have Minimal Internal...
Areas to the south of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. WBC measurement were performed at the Jyoban Hospital in central Iwaki, which is located about 50 km south of the Fukushima Daiichi...
View ArticleScience Communication in the Internet Age: Fukushima's Impact on the Environment
The purpose of this diary is to bring to the attention of readers a story published in a national newspaper in Canada about the response to my public outreach efforts aimed at reporting the results of...
View ArticleUpdate: Science and Risk Communication About Fukushima Environmental Impacts
The purpose of this diary is to update readers about the response to my public outreach efforts aimed at reporting the results of scientific research into the impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster...
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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...
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Contamination 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...
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Update: 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...
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The 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...
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Calling 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...
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Field 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...
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Update: 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...
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July 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...
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Undergraduate 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...
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Citizen 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...
View ArticleFukushima FAQ: Are Fukushima Radionuclides Causing Super Storms in the...
Short answer is absolutely not.This post is part of an ongoing series dedicated to science education and to relate scientific findings about the impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster on...
View ArticleThe Integrated Fukushima Ocean Radionuclide Monitoring (InFORM) Project:...
This post is meant to explain to interested readers where and how our samples of marine organisms from the northeast Pacific are monitored for Fukushima derived contamination as part of the InFORM...
View ArticleCitizen Scientists Sampling for Fukushima Contamination in Port Renfrew BC...
Last evening I spoke at the monthly meeting of Surfrider Vancouver Island, one of InFORM's non-governmental organization partners, to provide them with an update on our most recent results and...
View ArticlePushing the Limit: Fukushima Fingerprint Isotope Found in Pacific Salmon from...
This post was co-written with Dr. Jonathan Kellogg and reports on the most recent efforts of the Integrated Fukushima Ocean Radionuclide Monitoring (InFORM) project to provide scientifically rigorous...
View ArticleUpdate on Fukushima Contamination in Seawater and Fish Near North America
The purpose of this post is to provide a brief update on the recent results of seawater and Pacific salmon monitoring carried out by the InFORM project and our partner Our Radioactive Ocean tracking...
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March for Science and Earth Day in Victoria, BC Canada
Yesterday I participated in the Victoria BC satellite March For Science. It was an inspiring event that brought together professional scientists and science enthusiasts in support of evidence based...
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The Apollo 13 Mission and Rescue: How much plutonium was added to the Earth's...
The purpose of this short post is to compare the relative amounts of radioactive plutonium added to our environment by the Apollo 13 mission in April 1970 to the amount released by the Fukushima...
View ArticleMeasuring Fukushima Contamination in Fish Caught in Hawaii
The purpose of this post is to summarize a recently published, peer reviewed, scientific study that investigated levels of Fukushima derived contamination in fish caught in the North Pacific and sold...
View ArticleWhy color matters: Scientific outreach and education about the Fukushima...
The following post was written by my colleague Dr. Jonathan Kellogg about recent experiences with science communication relating to the Fukushima Daiichii Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) disaster. We work...
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What is the optimum level of ionizing radiation exposure for Life?
An interesting open access, peer-reviewed study was published earlier this year in Frontiers in Microbiology that examined how lower than background doses of ionizing radiation affected the growth of...
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How much Fukushima contamination is there in migratory Pacific fish?
The purpose of this post is to report on a recently published, peer-reviewed study that investigated the levels of Fukushima derived contamination in migratory Pacific predators. The post is part of an...
View ArticleNorth Korean Atmospheric Thermonuclear Test: How much contamination can we...
The purpose of this post is to conduct a thought experiment to arrive at (I hope) a useful estimate of how much radioactive contamination might occur if North Korea detonates a thermonuclear weapon in...
View ArticleExtraordinary Measures: Solitary Pacific Salmon Found With Detectable...
This post is based on a more detailed post by Dr. Jonathan Kellogg on the Integrated Fukushima Ocean Radionuclide Monitoring (InFORM) project website. It contributes to an ongoing effort to provide...
View ArticleUpdate on Fukushima Monitoring Activities in North America: 7 Years On
The purpose of this post is to bring the community up to date on monitoring efforts aimed at understanding the impact of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident on environmental and...
View ArticleMonitoring Fukushima Contamination in Pacific Salmon and Soil in British...
Seven years on, since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident, it is useful to start to bring together information from scientific studies of the impact of the contamination on the...
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Update: Fukushima Derived Contamination in Pacific Surface Water Up Until 2017
The purpose of this post is to summarize a recently published, peer-reviewed study that documents levels of Fukushima derived contamination in surface waters of the Pacific Ocean. This post is part of...
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Update: Citizen Scientists' Continued Efforts to Monitor Fukushima Derived...
The purpose of this post is to provide readers with a brief update on our citizen science sampling program that is monitoring seawater concentrations of contamination derived from Fukushima Daiichi...
View ArticleInsignificant Environmental and Public Health Risk from Fukushima in North...
I am writing this post is to bring the public up to date on monitoring efforts of my research program into the impact of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident on environmental and...
View ArticleFukushima 10 Years On: Free, public, virtual conference on scientific...
The purpose of this post is to draw attention to an upcoming event marking 10 years since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) meltdowns and presenting the results of research into how the...
View ArticleRadioactivity in fish and shellfish samples from the west coast of Canada...
The purpose of this post is to bring the public up to date on monitoring efforts of a research program into the impact of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident on environmental and...
View ArticlePassing of Joy Thompson (Joieau)
Hello DK community. It has come to my attention that our community member Joy Thompson (Joieau) passed away in November 2022 following a heart attack. Joy worked as a radiation monitoring technician at...
View ArticleCBC Interview about contaminated water releases from the Fukushima Daiichi...
On Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. PT, Japan initiated the release of radioactive water from a nuclear power plant managed by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), more than a decade after the facility...
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