MotherJones posted this video with short interviews from the Project Kaisei crowd. The samples of plastic they brought back are on deck and in view in several shots. Just further proof of the reality few of us get to view firsthand but nevertheless exists.
The North Pacific gyre is home to the aptly named Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Although conservation and marine science has known about the existence of this strange amalgamation of human plastic waste for several years, not much is know about its true size, the structure of the debris it contains, or the impact on marine [...]
A fellow marine educator, Ron Hirschi, was recently honored with a trip to the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. He was kind enough to detail his excursion on his own blog but his time spent on Midway Atoll particularly sparked a single great idea: Project Serious Sand.
As he recently wrote on the National [...]
Over the weekend I hit the Lagoon once more for a serious cleanup. Instead of showing up in flipflops and a tanktop with a single bag to use I came with an absolute arsenal against trash. Pocket knives, a roll of bags, watershoes to go hunting in the shallows for marine debris, oatmeal [...]
A hat tip to Emily at Oceana’s blog who posted in The Scanner about Project Kaisei. I regularly talk about the problems of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with students, my neighbors, the people in the Publix checkout lane, to kayakers and anglers on the shore of the Indian River Lagoon, and pretty much [...]
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