Ken Buesseler is Senior Scientist of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. We talk about measuring radioactivity after the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, crowdfunding, and dealing with foreign governments and online trolls.

For more information:

• Cafe Thorium, research group website

• Our Radioactive Ocean, citizen science initiative

• Ken Buesseler's 2014 Reddit AMA

• Ken Buesseler's 2016 Reddit AMA

• WHOI Center for Marine and Environmental Radioactivity (CMER)

• Welcome to the Cafe Thorium where Chemist Ken Buesseler serves up a brew of fresh espresso and solid science by Tom Gidwitz

• U.S.-Japan Council March 2016 newsletter