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Ken Buesseler is an American oceanographer and marine chemist. He was born in 1959 in Wisconsin and grew up in the Midwest. He received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981 and his Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington in 1987. Buesseler is currently a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and a professor of marine chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also the director of the Center for Marine and Environmental Radioactivity (CMER) at WHOI. Buesseler has conducted research on the ocean's role in the global carbon cycle, the fate of radionuclides in the ocean, and the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award and the American Geophysical Union's Maurice Ewing Medal. Buesseler is married and has two children. He enjoys sailing, skiing, and playing the guitar.

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2009

Buesseler was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2009. He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013. He was cited by the Times Higher Education as the top cited Oceanographer for the decade 2000 to 2010.

1983

Since 1983 he has spend the largest part of his career at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he became a senior scientist in 2000. He is best known for his research on the marine radiation effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, where he went on a scientific expedition shortly after the disaster. He has measured specific caesium levels since. He has also monitored the effects on the coast of the western United States. Buesseler has criticized the lack of a federal agency looking into the risks of marine radiation contamination in the United States. Buesseler previously did research on the effects of nuclear weapons testing and the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on the Black Sea.

1981

Buesseler studied biochemistry and cell biology at the University of California, San Diego, where he obtained a BA in 1981. In 1986 he obtained his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

1959

Kenneth "Ken" Owen Buesseler (born 1959) is an American marine radiochemist. He is a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.