Canopy-forming kelps as Californias coastal dosimeter: 131I from damaged Japanese reactor measured in macrocystis pyrifera

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3731-3736

  Manley, Steven L ^a   Lowe, Christopher G ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; NUCLEAR PLANT; ORGANIZATIONAL MECHANISMS; SPECIFIC ACTIVITY;

DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

SEAWEED;

IODINE 131; RADIOISOTOPE;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BROWN ALGA; CANOPY; COASTAL ZONE; IODINE; KELP FOREST; MARINE POLLUTION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANOPY; COASTAL WATERS; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; FOREST; JAPAN; KELP; MACROCYSTIS; MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; SEASHORE; UNITED STATES; VOLATILIZATION;

CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAMMA RAYS; GEOGRAPHY; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; JAPAN; KELP; MACROCYSTIS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; RADIOMETRY; RAIN; SEAWATER; STRUCTURE COLLAPSE;

CALIFORNIA; CANADA; JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

LAMINARIALES; MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA;

EID: 84859336112     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es203598r     Document Type: Article

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