Kenneth Owen Buesseler
Born1959
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, San Diego, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forResearch on marine radiation effects, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
Scientific career
FieldsRadiochemistry, Marine science
InstitutionsWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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 spent 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]

See also

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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