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These discarded nylon ropes were collected from the beach. They trap and kill several types of marine wildlife.
James Leichter was the faculty advisor on the SEAPLEX cruise and an Associate Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He has been to sea many times over the course of his professional and graduate careers, but this was his first trip this far from the coastal zone, and first time in the Pacific Gyre.
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I created this 3D artwork entirely from items collected from a Beach Cleanup. #saveouroceans #plasticocean #4ocean
Sequoia sempervirens in Sintra - WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY - 5 June by Daniel Arrhakis (2017)
With the music : Shawn Barnes - Stargazing
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Some Coast Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) in the Quinta da Ribafria in Sintra, Portugal.
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- The global reassessment highlighted that 34% of conifers are globally threatened with extinction. (2013)
- Half of tree species in the Amazon at risk of extinction, say scientists (2015) .
- 9,600 types of trees were threatened by extinction (2017)
- The latest update to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species highlights the loss of sea ice habitat due to climate warming as the single most important threat to the long-term survival of the polar bear. (2017)
- Marine bony fishes at risk of extinction in the East Central Atlantic and Greater Caribbean regions.
-Coral reefs could be extinct by 2050, and this may subsequently lead to the extinction of the 1,000,000 species that rely on them. (2017)
- 22 million tonnes of carbon dioxide are released by human industrial activity each day, and a quarter of it is absorbed into the ocean. The annual carbon dioxide emissions are thought to be around six billion metric tonnes. (2017)
- Biodiversity is declining. Currently there are more than 79,800 species on The IUCN Red List, and more than 23,000 are threatened with extinction, including 41% of amphibians, 34% of conifers, 33% of reef building corals, 25% of mammals and 13% of birds. (2017)
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The IUCN Red List: Guiding Conservation for 50 years video:
- The proliferation of plastic products in the last 70 years or so has been extraordinary; quite simply we cannot now live without them. We are now producing nearly 300 million tons of plastic every year, half of which is for single use. More than 8 million tons of plastic is dumped into our oceans every year.
www.plasticoceans.org/the-facts/
There is nothing more to say ... we are not blind ... in 2017 after millions of years of evolution and thousands of years of civilization and knowledge we should already be more responsible even in the choice of our leaders ... in the future there is no place to Stupidity or Ignorance if we still want to exist !
But more important still is that the Planet is of all Living Beings and it is not Mars that will save us !!
Cardiff Bay's Mount Stuart Graving Dock vying to compete with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch... education.nationalgeographic.co.uk/education/encyclopedia...
...plastic bottles floating in a sea of filth come as little surprise, but as for the ten or more trainers and two rucksacks! Plus the vandalised lifebelts!!!
Plastic Pollution has become a man-made global catastrophe:
Plastic Ocean, installation by Tan Zi Xi, 8Q @ Singapore Art Museum [14 may - 28 august 2016], Singapore.
Fujifilm X-E1 + Fujinon 35mm. Multiexposure mode. N(atura)H film simulation. Æ’/1.4. iso1600. No alteration.
one of the many tangles of plastic found in certain parts of the ocean that in the Pacific stretches on for an area TWICE THE SIZE OF TEXAS!!!!
an article that changed my life:
Miriam described finding the giant squid as her favorite experience!
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This was the first manta trawl taken in the California Current
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Unique, 400 x 400 x 400mm, plastic packaging strips. karenVsandon from 2010 'Transported' collection. NFS
in the tallship Kaisei lab
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Plastic Ocean is a poetic VR game which simulates how human behavior affects the real-world environment. In this project, the human is both the initiator of the ocean pollution and the resolver of it. The goal of this game is to combine the irony of the gameplay with reality.
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They are responsible for getting Annie on The New Horizon
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The New Horizon and the Kaisei met up to compare observations
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One of Miriam's focuses is zooplankton- tiny marine animals that are unable to swim against a current.
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Josh Jones with his collections out of the Dip Net
August 13
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Timbo Stallinger, volunteer and student; Karin Malmstrom, volunteer Project Kaisei; Josh Jones
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These scale worms were found among the barnacles on the buoy that was floating in the middle of the North Pacific Gyre.
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James Leichter was the faculty advisor on the SEAPLEX cruise and an Associate Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He has been to sea many times over the course of his professional and graduate careers, but this was his first trip this far from the coastal zone, and first time in the Pacific Gyre.
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A fouling community is typically a larger community of animals that have settled onto marine debris. This is Miriam's other study focus.
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Josh Jones was the marine mammal observer. On board the New Horizon, it was his job to use all available means to find, identify, and record any whales and dolphins that encountered along the way during this expedition. The goal is to give an idea of what species of marine mammals might be utilizing the area of the Pacific where the science team studied the plastics.
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