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Sea of Thorium data Repository Available
We are excited to announce Café Thorium Post Doctoral Scholar Elena Ceballos with colleagues from WHOI and Universidad de Sevilla has compiled a Sea of Thorium Repository. Researchers can use this data and contribute! We hope you will use and add to this valuable dataset. Accurate assessment of the carbon export flux is crucial for…
Read MoreHot off the Press: Next steps for assessing ocean iron fertilization for mCDR
On Monday September 9th, 2024 a new paper was published in Frontiers: Climate: Next steps for assessing ocean iron fertilization for marine carbon dioxide removal. This important paper is a collaboration by ocean scientists across many ocean-related specialties who are members of ExOIS, Exploring Ocean Iron Solution group who endorse and are planning for an…
Read MoreTraining Workshop on Marine Radioactivity
In August 2024 the Center for Marine Environmental Radioactivity along with partners hosted a successful 4-day training workshop on marine radioactivity with participants from around the world. Watch out for a call for applications in another two years! WHO: University students, early career scientists and other professionals who are interest in radioactivity in the marine…
Read MoreThe future of ocean health
Human and environmental health are inextricably linked. Yet ocean ecosystem health is declining because of anthropogenic pollution, overexploitation, and the effects of global climate change. These problems affect billions of people dependent on oceans for their lives, livelihoods, and cultural practices. The importance of ocean health is recognized by scientists, managers, policy-makers, nongovernmental organizations, and…
Read MoreMinimizing harm: the concrete option for Fukushima tanks waste
Minimizing Harm: the concrete option for solving the accumulation of radioactively contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant site A paper prepared by the Independent Expert Panel to the Pacific Islands Forum Dr. Arjun Makhijani, Dr. Ferenc (Jacob Rolf) Dalnoki Veress, Dr. Robert Richmond, Dr. Anthony Hooker, Dr. Ken Buesseler12 June 2023 Abstract:…
Read MoreThe scale of the problem – Comments on a MA Dept. of Public Health report on radioactivity in untreated waters at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station
On May 19, 2023 a report was released by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Radiation Control Program (RCP) regarding testing done at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant. The plant owners, currently in the process of decommissioning, plan to discharge 1.1 million gallons of radioactive contaminated water into Cape Cod Bay as a part of…
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