the New York Times / Project Kaisei / S. Moret-Ferguson N. A. / British Broadcasting Company / /
Country
United States / /
Currency
pence / / /
Facility
University of California Ship Fund / University of California / /
IndustryTerm
plastics / larger plastics debris problem / media producers / considerable media coverage / toxic chemicals / media outlets / odorless gas / widedistribution media outlets / plastics debris accumulation / mass media communications / plastics debris / media community / local media outlets / mainstream media / research tools / food webs / chemical pollutants / quantitative oceanographic tools / synthetic polymer plastics / /
NaturalFeature
Sargasso Sea / North Pacific Ocean / /
Organization
Algalita Marine Research Foundation / Sea Education Association / Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California Ship Fund / Scripps Communications Office / University of California at San Diego / /
Person
K. L. Smith / Jr. / D. Chambers / V / J. Leichter / /
Position
drifter / Carpenter / faculty advisor for the project and the cruise / /
ProvinceOrState
Oregon / California / /
PublishedMedium
the New York Times / the journal Nature / Environmental Chemistry / /
Interdisciplinary Studies on Environmental Chemistry—Marine Environmental Modeling & Analysis, Eds., K. Omori, X. Guo, N. Yoshie, N. Fujii, I. C. Handoh, A. Isobe and S. Tanabe, pp. 251–259. © by TERRAPUB, 2011. Inv