Posts Tagged ‘Citizen Science’
The US government tested nuclear weapons on a chain of islands in the 1950s: A new project will allow locals to take their own samples
“Marine radiochemist Ken Buesseler is on a quest to provide fresh answers about how much radiation remains on the [Marshall] islands. “What we want to scientifically understand is, how is [radioactivity] going up or down over time, over the years and decades?” Buesseler said. He’s setting out this November to teach a duo of Marshalese…
Read MoreWhat I Learned from an Ocean Radioactivity Testing Project
Enlisting the public in water sampling after the Fukushima disaster helped build and spread scientific knowledge Read this Op-Ed by Ken Buesseler published online by Scientific American We live in a radioactive world. That simple fact about our planet kept coming to me in the weeks and months after March 11, 2011, when the…
Read More6 year update on Our Radioactive Ocean and findings off west coast
View Updated results from Our Radioactive Ocean – 6 years following the accident at Fukushima Dai’ichi Nuclear Power Plant.
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