Project Kaisei - Jesse Powell and Bongo Nets on SEAPLEX - The Garbage Patch - Scripps Oceanography

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SEAPLEX and Scripps Scientist Jesse Powell gives us an in depth look into the function and purpose of his work with the "Bongo Nets" while aboard the research vessel New Horizon. The SEAPLEX cruise from Scripps and Kaisei were two expeditions. Project Kaisei helped fund two expeditions out to the garbage patch to find solutions to the growing plastic problem facing the Ocean.

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Education

Tags:

• Annie Crawley
• Project Kaisei
• Plastic Ocean
• Plastic Island
• marine climate change
• New Horizon
• plastic vortex
• North Pacific Gyre
• marine debris
• the garbage patch
• ocean habitat
• ocean biology
• Scripps
• SEAPLEX
• Bongo nets
• Jesse Powell