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About Café Thorium


 
Fresh Brew

» January 2010- See Ken's interview on the "twilight zone", posted on Nature's Simply Science education web site.

» June 2009- Thorium-234 as a tracer of spatial, temporal and vertical variability in particle flux in the North Pacific published in Deep-Sea Research I


» May 2009-
Shedding light on processes that control particle export and flux attenuation in the twilight zone of the open ocean published in Limnology and Oceanography


» July 2008-DSRII volume published: Understanding the Ocean's Biological Pump


»Ocean Iron Fertilization Symposium, September 26 and 27, 2007

» August 2007- An assessment of the use of sediment traps for estimating upper ocean particle fluxes published in Journal of Marine Research


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April 2007 - Revisiting Carbon Flux Through the Ocean's Twilight Zone published in Science

» Press Release: Ocean's ‘Twilight Zone' Plays Important Role in Climate Change

Overview
Café Thorium is not really a cafe although we have been known to serve espresso & latte throughout the worlds major ocean basins. In fact, we are a serious scientific research team in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Thorium is just one of many radioactive elements we measure. We analyze samples for both natural and man made radionuclides.

» For a fun article about our work, check out this short piece on serving espresso and science on the high seas (PDF).

» Here’s a short course in how Thorium helps us learn about how the ocean works.

People
Meet the gang of scientists, students and associates of the Café Thorium and find out how to contact us to learn more or simply tell us what you like and use on our web site

Services & Facilities
While our T-shirt sales have been temporarily halted, the Café Thorium does provide radioanalytical services for the detection of natural and man-made radionuclides in environmental samples. We also have an archive of large volume (50 liter) seawater samples from the 1950’s-1980 that can be available for the right scientific project.

 

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