The view from my DUMBO loft Dec 2000 There’s nothing quite like the excitement of moving to a new city and getting your first apartment, and for me as for so many others, that feeling is amplified when the city in question is New York. So it was when I moved from Brisbane to Brooklyn . . . → Read More: FEATURED POST: A (fetid) river runs through it, the Brooklyn edition
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By para_sight, on  January 5th, 2012  5 comments  Dumping, Oil Spills, Plastic, Ramblings  Brooklyn, EPA, Gowanus, New York, NYC, pollution By Kevin Zelnio, on December 26th, 2011 One comment Conservation & Environment, Plastic plastic pollution, Plastic Shores Now that the holiday season is over for many of us and all the wrapping and boxes and packaging is stowed away or thrown in the trash, think about where it all goes. Nothing just stays in a land fill forever. Out of sight is never out of mind. Plastic Shores is a new film . . . → Read More: Where Do All Your Tinsel And Trappings Go After Christmas?
By Miriam Goldstein, on December 19th, 2011 3 comments Carnivals & Link Love, Natural Disaster, Plastic marine debris, OSCURS model, physical oceanography, SCUD model, tsunami Estimation of debris path created with OSCURS model. The colors are years after the tsunami. Click through for more information. Map courtesy of J. Churnside (NOAA OAR) and created through Google. Debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami is headed towards Hawaii and the North American west coast. For those concerned, several new sources of information . . . → Read More: Japanese tsunami debris link roundup
By Miriam Goldstein, on November 27th, 2011 Leave a comment Plastic marine debris, Philippines, plastic pollution This striking image of plastic pollution in the Philippines won first prize in the Ocean In Focus Conservation Photo Contest. First Prize goes to Peri Paleracio of Quezon City, the Philippines, for his picture of a boat in the Philippines with plastic and trash pollution suspended in the water. This over-under shot illustrates the . . . → Read More: Striking image of plastic pollution in Philippines
By Miriam Goldstein, on October 19th, 2011 6 comments Conservation & Environment, New Research, Plastic Global Drifter Program, Jan Hafner, marine debris, Nikolai Maximenko, physical oceanography, SCUD model, tsunami About six months ago, University of Hawaii scientists Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner mapped the likely route of debris dumped into the ocean by the March 11 Japanese tsunami. Just last week, a Russian sail training vessel used their maps to find the debris field. Since the North Pacific is really, really big – over . . . → Read More: How scientists found debris from the Japanese tsunami 700 miles off Midway
By Miriam Goldstein, on August 9th, 2011 3 comments Opinion, Plastic marine debris, plastic pollution Poster by Max Temkin, via Grist. Poster by Max Temkin, via Grist. By Kevin Zelnio, on June 10th, 2011 One comment Art, Conservation & Environment, Plastic Plastic, Portland, Washed Ashore Recently, my friend Michael Barton went to check out the Washed Ashore Exhibit, currently at Portland Community College, and was gracious enough to share some his images of it on flickr for us! It is all made from washed up beach debris and arranged to create stories of how plastic and trash in the . . . → Read More: Washed Ashore
By Miriam Goldstein, on May 2nd, 2011 One comment Plastic, Scientist! Deeplings, Georgia Aquarium, North Pacific Gyre, plastic pollution, SEAPLEX If you’re in the Atlanta GA area, this Wednesday evening is your chance to drink beer with two of your very favorite Deep Sea News bloggers. Thanks to Dr. Para_Sight, I’ll be speaking about my research on plastic pollution in the North Pacific Gyre at the Georgia Aquarium Science on Tap series. Come learn about . . . → Read More: Talking Trash at Georgia Aquarium Science on Tap
By Miriam Goldstein, on April 12th, 2011 One comment Plastic green sand beach, hawaii, marine debris, plastic pollution, SEAPLEX I have a new post up at the SEAPLEX blog (where I put all my marine debris stuff). A couple weeks ago I was lucky enough to go to Hawaii for the 5th International Conference on Marine Debris. (You can see my tweets at @seaplexscience, or the conference hashtag #5imdc.) This was my third . . . → Read More: Plastic pollution on Hawaii’s famed green sand beach
By Kevin Zelnio, on March 30th, 2011 Leave a comment Megavertebrate, Plastic plastic bags, sea turtle, Wallace J Nichols Image credit Neil Osborne, used with permission. Click for bluemarbles.org to learn more! Dr. Wallace J. Nichols is a sea turtle biologist and marine conservation activist affiliated with the California Academy of Sciences, Ocean Revolution, and the Sea Turtle Network, among others. He is a passionate defender of the oceans and you can learn . . . → Read More: Guest Post: Crowd-Sourcing Science to Save Sea Turtles
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