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

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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. 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.

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.

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