Project Kaisei - Miriam Goldstein Tracks Plastic in Skiff - The Garbage Patch - Scripps Oceanography

http://www.diveintoyourimagination.com/news/the-garbage-patch/ Scripps scientist Miriam Goldstein talks about the SEAPLEX expedition to the North Pacific Gyre and how shocked she was at the amount of plastic at the surface when they were in the skiff. 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. Project Kaisei helped fund to go out to the garbage patch and try to find solutions to the growing plastic problem facing the Ocean.

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• Annie Crawley
• Project Kaisei
• Plastic
• Ocean
• plastic ocean
• marine climate change
• New Horizon
• plastic vortex
• save the ocean
• North Pacific Gyre
• marine debris
• ocean habitat
• ocean biology
• Scripps
• SEAPLEX
• The Garbage Patch