LA Times: Pacific radiation and grass-roots testing

[Mongo Johnson]

Just an FYI, as this topic's come up occaassionally.

http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-calcook-is-the-pacific-radioactive-you-can-help-find-out-20140129,0,1639619.story#axzz2rtKaS9pK

As a marine chemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (http://www.whoi.edu/) who has been studying the effects of Japan’s Fukushima reactor leak since right after it happened, Ken Buesseler (http://www.whoi.edu/profile/kbuesseler/) had long grown frustrated with the repeated scare stories he was seeing online. So he decided to do something about it.
Buesseler is enlisting the public in his cause, giving them an opportunity to share in the research he is doing. Through the Center for Marine and Environmental Radioactivity, Buesseler is crowd-funding an effort (http://ourradioactiveocean.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?supId=0&ievent=1092921&lis=0&kntae1092921=444A2E2DD3B2420891D6B131C02456E9&team=) to take regular measurements of ocean radiation up and down the West Coast . . . .

[Bert Vega]

Thanks for posting that up. I want to sign up. Gives me another excuse to get out on the water. I can hear the warden now " You went out yesterday" I say "Yes I did. But that was for me to relax and enjoy myself. Today I have to go for science"

[MrPatrick]

Future news cast
"We have just learned that the California State Legislature has passed a TEMPORARY BAN on all ocean fishing. This will remain in effect until STATE "scientists" determine if fish are safe to be touched, in light of the continued Fukushima radiation".