SEAPLEX: Scripps Expedition to the "Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch"

From August 2-21, a group of doctoral students and research volunteers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will embark on an expedition aboard the Scripps research vessel New Horizon to explore the problem of plastic in the North Pacific Gyre.

The Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition (SEAPLEX) will focus on a suite of critical questions. How much plastic is accumulating, how is it distributed, and how is it affecting ocean life? The researchers hope to provide critical, timely data to policy makers and combine Scripps' long tradition of Pacific exploration with focus on a new and pressing environmental problem.

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Science & Technology

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• SEAPLEX
• Miriam Goldstein
• Jim Leichter
• Scripps Oceanography
• New Horizen
• North Pacific Ocean Gyre

[thetechnoPIMP]

This is a MAJOR TRAGEDY in the scope of the gulf oil spill, but this WILL get WORSE!!!!!!! This issue is VASTLY underreported!!!!!!!!

SAVE THE EARTH AND SHE SHALL SAVE YOU!!

[poliviajera]

How can she be so happy talking about something so terrible?

I mean, it is good for them to explore this awful thing, but hey girl, looking to cheerful for my taste.

[cleanconsciencegoods]

Thank you for sharing your exploration!

[braincog]

Awesome video. Heard about on NPR. Search YT for "garbage robots".