NE Professor and Head of Applied Nuclear Physics at Berkeley Lab Kai Vetter and Keenan Thomas have joined forces with Professor Steven Manley from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) to launch “Kelp Watch 2014,” a scientific campaign designed to determine the extent of radioactive contamination of the state’s kelp forest from Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.
Graduate student, Ryan Pavlovsky, and Professor 
