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Art, Aliens, and Radiation: Dr. Cullen at the Vancouver Aquarium

Dr. Cullen participated in a panel discussion about the effects of the tsunami and Fukushima disaster at the Vancouver Aquarium on March 7, 2016. Dr. Cullen’s presentation is between 1:15 and 17:00.

Vancouver Aquarium’s original program announcement.

Presentation to DFO State of the Pacific Ocean

JP Kellogg DFO State of Pacific 2016
Poster presentation for the DFO State of the Pacific meeting on March 1, 2016.

The annual State of the Pacific meeting was held on March 1, 2016 at Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, BC. We presented this poster to our peers investigating other contemporary phenomenon. Click on the poster to view a larger version.

 

No radiation from Japan’s Fukushima disaster found in BC fish

No radiation from Japan's Fukushima disaster found in B.C. fish
John Nightingale, president of the Vancouver Aquarium, said at a 2014 news conference by the Arctic char tank at Vancouver Aquarium that radiation levels are barely above background levels since the 2011 meltdown of nuclear reactors at Fukushima caused by the earthquake and tsunami.

By Bethany Lindsay
Vancouver Sun
Published 23 Feb 2016

Nearly five years after a massive earthquake resulted in the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, researchers in B.C. have found no detectable levels of contamination in fish along the West Coast.

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