Ken Buesseler

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Kenneth "Ken" Owen Buesseler (born 1959)[1] is an American marine radiochemist. He is a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Education[]

Buesseler studied biochemistry and cell biology at the University of California, San Diego, where he obtained a BA in 1981. In 1986 he obtained his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.[2]

Career[]

Since 1983 he has spend the largest part of his career at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he became a senior scientist in 2000.[3] He is best known for his research on the marine radiation effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, where he went on a scientific expedition shortly after the disaster.[4][5] He has measured specific caesium levels since. He has also monitored the effects on the coast of the western United States.[6] Buesseler has criticized the lack of a federal agency looking into the risks of marine radiation contamination in the United States.[7] Buesseler previously did research on the effects of nuclear weapons testing and the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on the Black Sea.[8]

Honors and awards[]

Buesseler was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2009.[9] He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.[10] He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018.[11] Buesseler was cited by the Times Higher Education as the top cited oceanographer for the decade 2000 to 2010.[12]

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References[]

  1. ^ "Royal Academy selects fifteen new members". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 23 May 2013. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Ken Buesseler". Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  3. ^ "Kenneth Buesseler CV" (PDF). Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. April 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  4. ^ Daniel Cressey (20 January 2014). "Cash wanted to help monitor Fukushima ocean radioactivity". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2014.14552. S2CID 131450159. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  5. ^ Mihai Andrei (8 March 2016). "Ken Buesseler, oceanographer, answers questions about Fukushima's impact on the oceans". ZME Science. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  6. ^ "Fukushima site still leaking after five years, research shows". Phys.org. 8 March 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  7. ^ Ken Buesseler (9 March 2016). "5 years later, Fukushima radiation continues to seep into the Pacific Ocean". PBS NewsHour. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  8. ^ Ken_Buesseler; r/Science (8 March 2016). "Science AMA Series: I'm Ken Buesseler, an oceanographer who has been studying the impacts of Fukushima Dai-ichi on the oceans. It's been 5 years now and I'm still being asked – how radioactive is our ocean? and should I be concerned? AMA". The Winnower. doi:10.15200/winn.145735.52993. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  9. ^ "Fellows of 2009". American Geophysical Union. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  10. ^ "Kenneth Buesseler". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020.
  11. ^ Korte, Andrea (27 November 2018). "AAAS Honors Accomplished Scientists as 2018 Elected Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020.
  12. ^ "Top 30 Research Institutions in Oceanography". Times Higher Education. 5 May 2011. Archived from the original on 1 October 2017.

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