Friday, July 31st, 2009

An Expedition to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Your trash could come back to haunt you. That's the moral of this cautionary tale created by Esteban Valencia, Eduardo Hernandez and Randi Levey, students from Miami Beach Senior High. They won first place in the 15-17 year-old category of the Oceans 2030: Youth Outlook Multimedia Contest. This video, and several other winning submissions, was made at the One Water Workshop, a week-long video program for kids. (Credits: Produced by Esteban Valencia, Randi Levy, Eduardo Hernandez, Diego Meza-Valdez. Courtesy of NCSE) Viewed 24006 times. See More Videos

In this segment, we'll talk with the leader of an expedition to the great Pacific garbage patch about tracking plastic in the sea. Next week, researchers head by boat to the North Pacific Gyre, a thousand miles off California, to study the floating plastic debris found there. The team hopes to collect better data on the composition, extent, and effects of the debris.