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July 2015 InFORMal Monitoring Update

July 15, 2015 dr.jonathan.kellogg Leave a comment

July 2015 CS update-web-01 — InFORMal monitoring results for water samples collected in April/May 2015

Results* from April citizen science monitoring are now available from 8 of 11 (above: bold italics) of the current InFORM sampling locations. Additionally, two samples from May are available from Ucluelet and Port Renfrew. The Ucluelet sample was collected by the Ucluelet Aquarium for our partner organization, Our Radioactive Ocean, on May 7th and did contain trace amounts (0.5 Bq m^-3) of the Fukushima fingerprint, ¹³⁴Cs, with it’s short ~2 year half life. The total level of activity from this sample is roughly half the activity of the February sample, which was the last time ¹³⁴Cs was detected on the BC coast. Continue reading July 2015 InFORMal Monitoring Update →

Biota, Monitoring

Health Canada/InFORM Analyses of the Radioactive Content of Fish Samples from Canada’s West Coast

June 18, 2015 dr.jonathan.kellogg Leave a comment

This page mirrors information on the radionuclide content of fish measured by Health Canada and the InFORM project that can be found at Open Government, Open Data.

Continue reading Health Canada/InFORM Analyses of the Radioactive Content of Fish Samples from Canada’s West Coast →

Coastal, Monitoring

June 2015 InFORMal Monitoring Update

June 15, 2015 dr.jonathan.kellogg Leave a comment

June 2015 CS update — InFORMal scientist monitoring results, June 2015

Results* from water samples collected in April are now available from 5/14 (above: bold italics) of the current InFORM sampling locations. While our expectations are that the plume would first appear in samples from the southern outer coast of Vancouver Island, the new data from other regions does not yet have any measureable ¹³⁴Cs, the fingerprint of the Fukushima plume due to its short ~2 year half-life. Continue reading June 2015 InFORMal Monitoring Update →

Coastal, Monitoring

May 2015 InFORMal Monitoring Update

May 15, 2015 dr.jonathan.kellogg Leave a comment

May2015 w Labels-01 — InFORMal monitoring results from samples collected in March 2015

Results* from March are now available from 10/12 of the current InFORM sampling locations. Recent samples from Sandspit and Bella Bella are still being processed and data shown are from February. After the positive measurement of Fukushima-derived ¹³⁴Cs radiation in February at Ucluelet, we expected this signal to spread in samples collected in March. Instead, there is no detectable ¹³⁴Cs (detection limit ~0.2 Bq m^-3) in any of the March samples. Continue reading May 2015 InFORMal Monitoring Update →

Coastal, Monitoring

April 2015 InFORMal Monitoring Update

April 15, 2015 dr.jonathan.kellogg Leave a comment

April2015 w Labels — InFORMal monitoring results from samples collected in February and March 2015

Results* from early February and March are now available from 10/13 of the InFORM sampling locations. Recent samples from Bamfield, Vancouver, and Powell River are still being processed. To date, no InFORM coastal samples have detectable (detection limit ~0.2 Bq m^-3) levels of ¹³⁴Cs, the radionuclide that is the fingerprint of Fukushima derived radiation due to its short half life (~2 years). An interesting note is that the February Tofino sample was collected on the 7th, just 12 days before the ORO sample collected in Ucluelet that was the first to contain measureable ¹³⁴Cs. Continue reading April 2015 InFORMal Monitoring Update →