Tag: "marine debris"

Plastic confetti alongside baby blue velellas in the North Pacific Gyre - Credit: Karin Malmstrom/Marine Photobank

Turning the North Pacific Gyre Plastic into Useful Materials

Mary Crowley, co-funder of Project Kasei and one of the members of the team that studies the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and sailed along the SEAPLEX expedition – see our report about the expedition – last August, is dreaming of converting the little pieces of plastic, that are being ingested by marine life, into fuel or building materials while cleaning the ocean.

Derelict fishing gear, removal is essential for reducing risks to marine life - NOAA/NMFS

Saving Marine Life: Coral Reefs Cleanup in Northwest Hawaii

The Oscar Elton Sette, one of NOAA’s research vessels is currently at the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument on its first of two planned expeditions this year outlined to remove deserted fishing gear to save marine life, especially in coral reef ecosystems of the North West Hawaiian Islands (NWHI).