Jan. 15, 2015
Citizen scientist volunteer Karen Clemson collected seawater for the InFORM project on Vesuvius Beach, Salt Spring Island BC.
Vesuvius Beach, Salt Spring Island BC Canada
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Radiation Testing Underway in Prince Rupert, BC
Radiation testing underway in Prince Rupert
Northwest Community College volunteers Michael Standbridge and Brittany Fenwick helped collect water samples on Jan. 9.
Prince Rupert Citizen Science Monitoring in January 2015
Jan. 9, 2015
Prince Rupert BC
Collection team for January 2015 was Brittany Fenwick and Michael Standbridge, both students at NWCC. Michael has just started in the Applied Coastal Ecology (ACE) program, and had only been in Prince Rupert for a week. Brittany is taking classes and also works/volunteers at the local fish hatchery. Sampling is being coordinated by Cheryl Paavola (Instructor and Science Lab Tech) at Northwest Community College – Prince Rupert.
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Volunteers Collect January 2015 Seawater Sample in Lax Kw’alaams, BC
Coast Tsimshian Academy is our volunteer citizen science partner in Lax Kw’alaams who is helping us collect seawater to monitor for the arrival of Fukushima contamination along our coastline. The picture below shows the January sample being collected from the dock there.
Lax Kw’alaams BC Canada
Canadian scientists track Pacific Ocean currents… using Fukushima radiation
Scott Sutherland
Meteorologist, theweathernetwork.com
Originally published by The Weather Network
Wednesday, January 7, 2015, 8:09 PM – Radioactive isotopes originating from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan have been slowly drifting across the Pacific Ocean since March 2011, and Canadian scientists have been using this to test some of their most basic ideas of how ocean currents work. Continue reading Canadian scientists track Pacific Ocean currents… using Fukushima radiation
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