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Talk at Mobilizing Science Knowledge and Research: A National Centre of Excellence Symposium

Cullen Lab: Chemical Oceanography

Knowledge Mobilization Symposium Halifax 2015January 28, 2015

Cullen traveled to Halifax to present a talk about the early stages of the InFORM project and efforts to build a citizen scientist network and mobilize knowledge about the impacts of the Fukushima Dai-ichi disaster on the health of the North Pacific and residents of Canada’s west coast.

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B.C.’s citizen scientists on alert for radiation from Japan

 Amy Smart

Originally Published in the Times Colonist January 24, 2015 10:22 PM

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Citizen scientists with environmental group Surfriders collect seawater samples off a dock in Port Renfrew. The samples will be analyzed for traces of radiation from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown. Photo courtesy Craig Wardle

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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