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/dailydis...#axzz2rtKaS9pK

As a marine chemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who has been studying the effects of Japan’s Fukushima reactor leak since right after it happened, Ken Buesseler 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 to take regular measurements of ocean radiation up and down the West Coast . . . .