Ken Buesseler

Kenneth "Ken" Owen Buesseler (born 1959)[1] is an American marine radiochemist. He is a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Buesseler studied biochemistry and cell biology at the University of California, San Diego, where he obtained a BA in 1981. In 1986 he obtained his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.[2] Since 1983 he has spend the largest part of his career at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he became a senior scientist in 2000.[3] He is best known for his research on the marine radiation effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, where he went on a scientific expedition shortly after the disaster.[4][5] He has measured specific caesium levels since. He has also monitored the effects on the coast of the western United States.[6] Buesseler has criticized the lack of a federal agency looking into the risks of marine radiation contamination in the United States.[7] Buesseler previously did research on the effects of nuclear weapons testing and the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on the Black Sea.[8]

Buesseler was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2009.[9] He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Royal Academy selects fifteen new members". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 23 May 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "Ken Buesseler". Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Kenneth Buesseler CV" (PDF). Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. April 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  4. ↑ Daniel Cressey (20 January 2014). "Cash wanted to help monitor Fukushima ocean radioactivity". Nature. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Mihai Andrei (8 March 2016). "Ken Buesseler, oceanographer, answers questions about Fukushima's impact on the oceans". ZME Science. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  6. ↑ "Fukushima site still leaking after five years, research shows". Phys.org. 8 March 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  7. ↑ Ken Buesseler (9 March 2016). "5 years later, Fukushima radiation continues to seep into the Pacific Ocean". PBS NewsHour. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  8. ↑ "Science AMA Series: I'm Ken Buesseler, an oceanographer who has been studying the impacts of Fukushima Dai-ichi on the oceans. It's been 5 years now and I'm still being asked – how radioactive is our ocean? and should I be concerned? AMA.". The Winnower. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "Fellows of 2009". American Geophysical Union. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "Kenneth Buesseler". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 17 May 2016.

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