SCOR Working Group 146: Radioactivity in the Ocean, 5 Decades Later (RiO5)

Co-chairs: Ken Buesseler (USA) and Minhan Dai (China-Beijing)

Other Full Members: Michio Aoyama (Japan), Claudia Benitez‐Nelson (USA), Sabine Charmasson (France), Roberta Delfanti (Italy), Pere Masqué (Spain), Willard S. Moore (USA), Paul Morris (Monaco), Deborah Oughton (Norway), and John Smith (Canada)

Associate Members: Andy Johnson (USA), Reiner Schlitzer (Germany), Gary Hancock (Australia), José Godoy (Brazil), Nuria Casacuberta (Switzerland), Jordi Vives i Batlle (Belgium), Vladimer Maderich (Ukraine), and Sandor Muslow (Chile)

Terms of Reference

1. Combine and build upon existing global and individual databases of natural and artificial radionuclide distributions to make an user friendly and easily accessible on line product.
2. Summarize and publish review papers on these global radionuclide datasets and provide examples of how these can help improve our understanding of ocean processes and contaminant fate and transport.
3. Identify gaps in scientific knowledge in relation to radioactivity in the marine environment.
4. Bring together academic, nuclear industry and national laboratory expertise for an international symposium on radionuclides in the ocean.
5. Provide a warehouse of education materials to assist in the education and training of the next generation of marine radiochemists and radioecologists.
6. Develop tools to enhance public understanding of radioactivity, in particular in the ocean.

Approved: September 2014
Web site: http://www.whoi.edu/CMER/rio5-working-group