In 2012, SoMAS Professor Nicholas Fisher and postdoctoral scholar Zosia Baumann, working with a colleague at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, reported that they had detected radioactivity in Pacific bluefin tuna swimming off the California coast. The...
For two weeks after Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi powerplants were damaged by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami on 11 March 201l, large quantities of radioactivity leaked directly from the plants into the Pacific Ocean. A new study by scientists from Stanford...