Pacific bluefin wants your soul. Photo via OpenCage/Wikimedia There’s nothing like a terrifying headline to point out how differently scientists and the public see the world. On Monday, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS) found that Pacific bluefin tuna had carried detectable radiation from . . . → Read More: Detectable but not hazardous: radioactive marine life of Fukushima
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By Miriam Goldstein, on  June 1st, 2012  2 comments  Fishing  Bluefin, Fukushima, Honshu tsunami, Megafauna, Radiation, tsunami, tuna By para_sight, on June 10th, 2011 One comment Environmental Sciences, Expeditions, Life At Sea, Natural Disaster, New Research, Vessels and Equipment Fukushima, Japan, pollution, Radiation, Research There’s a research cruise underway right now to study the impacts of radiation release from the Fukushima disaster in Japan, using the UNOLS/U. Hawaii ship R/V Kaimikai-O-Kanaloa. You can read the overview here and follow the at sea blog of the 17 researchers here. The cruise features scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic, U. Tokyo, U. . . . → Read More: Follow along with Fukushima researchers
By Dr Bik, on June 6th, 2011 Leave a comment Expeditions, New Research Expeditions, Japan, Radiation, scientific cruise This weekend marked the beginning of a new scientific expedition, investigating how leaked radiation may be affecting marine life around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. The cruise is carrying 17 scientists, led by Ken Buesseler from Wood’s Hole: [Nicholas] Fisher [of Stony Brook University] is leading the effort to study how marine . . . → Read More: Tracking radiation effects off Fukushima
By Dr. M, on April 6th, 2011 One comment Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Fish, Industry & Government contamination, Fukushima, Japan, meltdown, Nuclear, pollution, Radiation Go back to work there is nothing to see here Japanese authorities said Tuesday they had discovered for the first time fish swimming off the country’s Pacific coast carrying high levels of radioactive materials. The finding, the latest blow from the nuclear crisis, is stoking concerns about environmental damage to local marine life, the safety . . . → Read More: Japan Finds Radiation in Fish
By Dr. M, on April 1st, 2011 4 comments Biology, Coral, Ecology, Oil Spills, Organisms age, Arminius, Augustus, Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, black coral, Coral, Germanic, growth rate, Leiopathes, lifespan, nuclear bomb testing, Radiation, radiocarbon dating, Romans, tree rings, Varsus Arminius The year is 9CE. Fourteen years later Pliny the Elder will be Pliny the Newly Born. Cai Lun will invent paper one hundred years later. In Northern Germany a storm unleashes on 30,000 Roman soldiers under the command of Publius Quinctilius Varus. Varus’s most trusted advisor, Arminius, was the son of a Germanic war . . . → Read More: A Tale of Germanic Chieftains and Deep-Sea Corals
By Kevin Zelnio, on April 1st, 2010 7 comments Adaptations, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Alvinocarididae, Best of Zelnio, Black Smoker, Hydrothermal Vent, Infrared, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Radiation, Retina, Rhodopsin, Rimicaris exoculata, Shrimp, vision Rimicaris exoculata, from this Japanese website (click image) *Not to be confused with the hit song by Survivor. The vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata (literally the Rift-shrimp deprived of eyes) swarms hydrothermal chimneys, with temperatures reaching over 350 C, en masse in the darkness of the deep sea. It has a certain peculiarity in that its . . . → Read More: The ‘Eye’ of the Vent Shrimp
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