Lecture Archive: Ken Buesseler

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Posted: April 13, 2015

Lecture date: March 11, 2015. Ken Buesseler discussed the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident and ocean radiation.

On the fourth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown triggered by the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake, Ken Buesseler discussed the impacts of the accident on marine life. Buesseler is a senior scientist in marine chemistry and geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).

Buesseler organized the first international oceanographic expedition to the region following the Fukushima disaster and created OurRadioactiveOcean.org, a citizen science sampling effort to collect seawater samples along the West Coast and analyze them in his WHOI lab. The results of his analysis are posted on OurRadioactiveOcean.org and accessible to anyone. He is also the director of the WHOI Center for Marine Environmental Radioactivity.

Video Posted: April 13, 2015 | Running time: 43:22

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