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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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Kelly Creek Community School Collects January 2015 Fukushima Monitoring Sample

Powell River, BC

Jan. 16, 2015

January sampling was carried out in close proximity to the Kelly Creek Community School on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.  According to volunteer citizen science coordinator Katherine McLean the school students helped to document the sampling and they saw two sea lions catching herring just off the beach.

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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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