UC Berkeley Professor Dr. Jim Bishop Helps Search for Radioactive Isotopes in Ocean

Dr. Jim Bishop is a Professor of Marine Biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and is helping to pioneer trace metal research in the marine environment. An area of particular interest to me was learning radioactive isotopes are being included in the trace metals Dr. Bishop and GEOTRACES researching.

GEOTRACES is an international programme which aims to improve the understanding of biogeochemical cycles and large-scale distribution of trace elements and their isotopes in the marine environment. Working with GEOTRACES, Professor Bishop and his team have been able to log substantial amounts of critical data which is continuing to play a major role in understanding the ocean's biochemical composition.

One of our goals here at Radioactive Current is working with Dr. Bishop and GEOTRACES to fully integrate portions of data compiled by Dr. Bishop and GEOTRACES into exiting models  in order to better understand what the impact of increased levels of radioactive material stemming from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster has had on our marine environment globally.

You can read more about Dr. Jim  Bishop at his website, ( http://eps.berkeley.edu/development/view_person.php?uid=212268&page=34

and GEOTRACES @ http://www.geotraces.org/ )

-Stoke