[SEMCO] Presentation about Fukushima radiation May 14

[Pat Harcourt]

*Woods Hole Science Technology and Education Partnership*

*Annual Meeting and Presentation*


​*“Fukushima:  A view from the ocean”*

By Ken Buesseler, Senior Scientist,

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution




*Wednesday, May 14, 4:00 PM           *

*in Clark 507, WHOI Quissett campus*

 The *public is welcome* 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.  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.

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.

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 ourradioactiveocean.org

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. This meeting is free and open to the
public. Light refreshments will be served.

*RSVP* to pharcourt at gmail.com by Tuesday May 13.

For more information, contact Pat Harcourt, WHSTEP Administrator, at
pharcourt at gmail.com

Directions to WHOI: *www.whoi.edu/directions
<http://www.whoi.edu/directions>*

The Woods Hole Science and Technology Education Partnership (WHSTEP),
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. www.whoi.edu/whstep

-- 
Pat Harcourt
pharcourt at gmail.com
508 215-9641
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