Publications

  • Macdonald, A. M., S. Yoshida, S. M. Pike, K. O. Buesseler, I. I. Rypina, S. R. Jayne, V. Rossi and J. Kenyon (2019). A Fukushima Perspective on Four Years of Mode Water Evolution, Deep Sea Res., in revision.
  • Cedarholm, E. R., I. I. Rypina, A. M. Macdonald and S. Yoshida (2019). Investigating subsurface pathways of Fukushima Cs in the Northwest Pacific,  Geophys. Res. Lett. In revision.
  • Smith, J., V. Rossi, K. O. Buesseler, J. Cullen, J. Cornett, R. Nelson, A. Macdonald, R. Marie and J. Kellogg (2017) Time series measurements of the transport of  the Fukushima radioactivity plume through the northeast Pacific Ocean, Environmental Science & Technology, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.7b02712.
  • Rypina I., D. Fertitta, A. M. Macdonald, S. Yoshida and S. Jayne, 2017. Multi-iteration approach to studying tracer spreading using drifter data. J. Phys. Ocean, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-16-0165.1.
  • Yoshida, S., A. M. Macdonald, S. R. Jayne, I. I. Rypina and K. O. Buesseler, 2015. Observed eastward progression of the Fukushima 134Cs signal across the North Pacific, GRL, doi: 10.1002/2015GL065259.
  • Rypina, I. I., S. Jayne, S. Yoshida, A. M. Macdonald, and K. O. Buesseler, 2014. Drifter-based study of the 5-year dispersal of Fukushima-derived radionuclides. J. Geophys. Res., DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010306.
  • Rypina, I. I., S. R. Jayne, S. Yoshida, A. M. Macdonald, E. Douglass, and K. Buesseler, 2013. Short-term Dispersal of Fukushima-derived Radionuclides off Japan: Modeling Efforts and Model-data Intercomparison. Biogeosciences, 10, 1517–1550, doi:10.5194/bgd-10-1517-2013.
  • Buesseler, K.O., S. R. Jayne, N. S. Fisher, I. I. Rypina, H. Baumann, Z. Baumann, C. F. Breier, E. M. Douglass, J. George, A. M. Macdonald, H. Miyamoto, J. Nishikawa, S. M. Pike, and S. Yoshida, 2012. Fukushima-derived radionuclides in the ocean and biota off Japan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.1120794109.

 

Presentations

  • Cedarholm, E. R., I. I. Rypina, A. M. Macdonald, S. Yoshida, Investigating the Mysterious Deep Cesium from Fukushima. Fall AGU 2018, Abstract OS43D-2117.
  • Macdonald, A. M., S. Yoshida, S. Pike, K. O Buesseler, I. I. Rypina and S. Jayne, North Pacific Mode Water: A 2011-2015 Fukushima Perspective Derived from GO-SHIP 152°W (P16N) and Argo Float Observations. Ocean Sciences, 2018. Poster PL44C-1903.
  • Macdonald, A. M., S. Yoshida, S. Pike, K. O Buesseler, I.I Rypina and S. Jayne, Four Years of North Pacific Mode Water Evolution: A Fukushima Perspective, PICO Session with invited 10 minute talk, EGU2017-109, EGU, Vienna, Austria, April 2017.
  • Yoshida, S., A. M. Macdonald, S. R. Jayne, I. Rypina and K. Buesseler: Fukushima Cs Pathway in the western North Pacific, Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, February 2016 (view here)
  • Fertitta, D., A. M. Macdonald and I. Rypina: Drifter-Based Predictions of the Spread of Surface Contamination Using Iterative Statistics: A Local example with Global Applications, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2015 (view here)
  •  Yoshida, S., A. M. Macdonald, S. R. Jayne, I. Rypina and K. Buesseler: Observed Eastward Progression of the Fukushima 134Cs Signal Across the North Pacific, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2015 (view here)
  • Yoshida, S., S. R. Jayne, A. M. Macdonald, I. Rypina and K. Buesseler: Observation-base estimate of the Fukushima radionuclide propagation in the North Pacific, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014, Vienna, April 2014 (view here)
  • Yoshida, S., S. R. Jayne, A. M. Macdonald and K. Buesseler: Observational evidence of Fukushima radionuclide signals in the North Pacific two years after the release, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, February 2014
  • Yoshida, S., S. R. Jayne, I. Rypina and K. Buesseler: Circulation and eddy variability observed south of Fukushima, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Summer Meeting, Like Biwa Otsu, Japan, July 2012