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<b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Woods Hole Science
Technology and Education Partnership</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Annual Meeting and Presentation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><img style="margin-right: 0px;" src="cid:ii_hullts9b1_145af0505d754747" height="161" width="242"><br><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">“Fukushima: A view
from the ocean”</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">By Ken Buesseler, Senior
Scientist, <br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Wednesday, May 14, 4:00 PM <span> </span><br>
</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">in Clark 507, WHOI Quissett campus</span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""> </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
<b>public is welcome</b> to attend the
annual meeting of Woods Hole Science and Technology Education Partnership. Dr.
Buessler is compiling a comprehensive dataset on marine radiation levels in the
aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster. <span> </span>In January of this year, he launched a
crowdsourcing campaign to cover the cost of the ongoing collection of seawater
samples at 24 locations along the Pacific Coast from Alaska to Canada, down the
West Coast of the US and out to the Hawaiian islands. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">While
Dr. Buesseler does not expect radiation levels to be high enough in the ocean
or in seafood to be of concern for human health as the plume spreads 5,000
miles across the Pacific, he believes the situation demands careful, consistent
monitoring. There is no US government plan to monitor the radiation levels in
the ocean along the US coastline.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dr.
Buesseler, who is director of the WHOI Center for Marine and Environmental
Radioactivity, is posting all of the current radiation level data online at </span><a href="http://ourradioactiveocean.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">ourradioactiveocean.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At
this Annual Meeting of WHSTEP, in addition to Dr. Buessler’s presentation, teachers
and students from local schools will present highlights of recent WHSTEP
projects. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This meeting is free and open to the
public. Light refreshments will be served. <br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><b>RSVP</b> to </span><a href="mailto:pharcourt@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">pharcourt@gmail.com</span></a>
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">by Tuesday May 13.</span></p>
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<p><a name="145f0ca9874beac4_145af0b9f0e6846b_145af09d5efca356_145af08222fd7826_145af06f803eff49__GoBack"></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For
more information, contact Pat Harcourt, WHSTEP Administrator, at </span><a href="mailto:pharcourt@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">pharcourt@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Directions
to WHOI: <u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.whoi.edu/directions" target="_blank">www.whoi.edu/directions</a></span></u> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Woods Hole Science and
Technology Education Partnership<span style="font-variant:small-caps"> (WHSTEP)</span>,
established in 1989, is a partnership of schools, scientific institutions,
businesses, and community resources. Its purpose is to support, promote, and
expand science, math, and technology education and science literacy on the
Upper Cape. </span><a href="http://www.whoi.edu/whstep" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">www.whoi.edu/whstep</span></a></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Pat Harcourt<br>
</div><a href="mailto:pharcourt@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharcourt@gmail.com</a><br>508 215-9641<br></div>
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