The purpose of the 16 day KOK1108 cruise aboard the University of Hawaii research vessel Ka'imikai-o-Kanaloa was to study the fate of radiation released into the ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that was badly damaged by a tsunami on March 11, 2011.
Dataset | Brief Description |
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event log | scientific sampling event log from Fukushima Radionuclide Project |
CTD profiles | CTD profile data from Fukushima Radiation Project |
Niskin bottle samples | Calibrated CTD measurements of salinity and oxygen and Niskin bottle water samples |
hydrocast Cesium isotopes | 137Cs and 134Cs concentrations from Fukushima Radionuclide Project |
underway Cesium Isotopes | Cs137 and Cs134 concentrations from Fukushima Radionuclide Project |
biological samples | Cs134, Cs137, Ag110m, and K40 in zooplankton and small fish |
underway radiation monitoring | NaI Cesium data from underway monitoring system - Fukushima Radionuclide Levels Project |
surface drifters | Surface drifter measurements of temperature and drogue tension from KOK1108 |
Speciation of Iodine-129 and Iodine-127 | Speciation of I129 and I127 from Fukushima water samples |
Fukushima Radionuclide Iodine 129 levels | 129I of total dissolved inorganic iodine |
Chief Scientist: Kenneth O. Buesseler
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Fukushima KOK