{"id":21,"date":"2018-10-03T13:10:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T17:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personal-site.dev\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2023-03-10T09:09:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:09:31","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/projects\/","title":{"rendered":"All Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\t\tCurrent Projects\n\t<\/h1>\n\t

Jump to Concluded\/Archive projects<\/a><\/p>\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOcean Twilight Zone\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"Ocean\n Below the sunlit surface, there’s a realm known as the ocean’s “twilight zone.” At 200 to 1000 meters below the surface, sunlight is barely a…\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEXPORTS\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"Exports\"\n Ocean Exports is a large-scale NASA program with the goal of quantifying the export and fate of upper ocean net primary production using satellite observations…\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGEOTRACES\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"Geotraces\"\n GEOTRACES is an international collaborative project studying marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes in the ocean. Trace elements, critical for marine life,…\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFukushima Contaminants\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"Beneath\n Fukushima Contaminants On March 11, 2011 a 9.0-magnitude earthquake triggered a 15 m (45 ft) tsunami inundating the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP). This…\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLingering Radioactivity in the Marshall Islands\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"The\n Lingering Radioactivity in the Marshall Islands The Marshall Islands, a series of remote atolls in the Southern Pacific Ocean were used as ground zero for…\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNuclear Power Plants and the Ocean\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"NPP\n Nuclear Power Plants and the Ocean All nuclear power plants (NPPs) release small amounts of radionuclides, notably cesium (Cs-137 & Cs-134), tritium (H3), and iodine…\n\t\t\n

\n\t\tOlder Projects\n\t<\/h2>\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAre all traps created equal?\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"Ken\n Are All Traps Created Equal? This collaborative project took sediment and particle trap equipment to sea on the North Atlantic…\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUranium in Seawater\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"NEUP\n Uranium in Seawater Overview of Research This project active from 2014 to 2018 built upon the efforts within the DOE’s…\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVERTIGO\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"Squids\n VERTIGO – Ocean Particle Fluxes VERtical Transport In the Global Ocean- aka VERTIGO- was one of our largest and most…\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTwilight Zone EXplorer\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"WHOI\n TZEX – Twilight Zone EXplorer Project Summary This project sets out to develop improved particle flux collectors and use these…\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTENATSO-SIRENA\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"An\n TENATSO – Cape Verde time-series Establishing Long-term Ocean-atmospheric Observations on Cape Verde Observation is fundamental to understanding global change. Atmospheric…\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSouthern Ocean Iron Experiment\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"Ocean\n Why Dump Iron into the Ocean? Overview In the late 1980’s, the late John Martin advanced the idea that carbon…\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEDDIES – Sargasso Sea\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"From\n EDDIES – Sargasso Sea “EDdy Dynamics, mIxing, Export, and Species composition” is the title of a new project looking at…\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSouthern Ocean Carbon\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"ice_ship_close_315_42469\"\n Southern Ocean Carbon Cycle: Ocean Carbon Cycle Studies off Antarctica Overview The Southern Ocean is defined as those waters south…\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGroundwater Plutonium\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"Field\n Plutonium in Groundwater Overview Migration of plutonium and other radionuclides in groundwater is a major issue at several DOE sites….\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBlack Sea Studies\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"projects_blacksea\"\n Black Sea Studies Overview Since the Chernobyl accident in June of 1986, the “Cafe Thorium” lab has been actively pursuing…\n\t\t\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Current Projects Jump to Concluded\/Archive projects Ocean Twilight Zone Below the sunlit surface, there’s a realm known as the ocean’s “twilight zone.” At 200 to 1000 meters below the surface, sunlight is barely a… EXPORTS Ocean Exports is a large-scale NASA program with the goal of quantifying the export and fate of upper ocean net…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2372,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3155,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/3155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}