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Karishma's research logs is a holotape in the Fallout 4 Creations content "Cyber Dog." They are written by Karishma Shankar.
Location[]
- Nahant Oceanological Society building, on a table in the back room with the Oceanological instructor.
Transcript[]
= Nahant Oceanological Research =
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<Property of Karishma Shankar>
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Society goals and direction[]
I get why we're pivoting our focus toward groups like Poseidon Energy. The toxicity reports are concerning, and I don't deny there may be long term effects that can upset the ecosystem. But we also can't ignore other, more traditional dangers to aquatic life that are killing animals every day.
Over one hundred thousand marine animals die each year from plastic entanglement, and I'd be willing to bet a tenth of those deaths are from ocean dump sites like the Nahant Junkyard.
Just because I choose to focus on these real and insidious problems besieging our oceans, doesn't mean I'm a mole for the energy lobby, and I am offended at my colleagues' suggestions that I am.
An environmentalist's best friend[]
It seems like the only person who bothers to listen to me isn't a person at all, but one of the strays who come by the society for food.
He's a good dog, a very, very good dog, and an attentive one. It could be the hunger that motivates him, but he has a nose for spotting areas that have been disturbed by people.
As such, I've decided to take him on my trips to the junkyard. He's been useful in sniffing out stray litter and other harmful plastics that have washed ashore.
Nahant Junkyard test results[]
According to chemical and grain size analysis, the sediment at the island junkyard in Nahant has shown high levels of contamination. There's been an increase in heavy metals, plastics, alkylbenzenes, as well as the presence of several bacterial and worm species derived from sludge dumping and other organic waste.
I'd like to take a boat out to the junkyard to collect samples for water testing, primarily to check turbidity, oxygen concentration, and pH.
I just need to get the keys for the boat from the safe near the pier house. The lock's tied to a terminal alarm clock. I just have to set the alarm to the right time. It's the same as the year the Albatross set sail - becoming America's first oceanographic research vessel.
And in case I forget what year that was, it's also staring me in the face.
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