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This short children’s film follows Pancho, a sea turtle, who travels the ocean to warn other sea turtles about the dangers of marine pollution. Demonstrates the importance of protecting our ocean from marine pollution and delivers the message that all oceans of the world are part of one global ocean. Sponsored by the Monterey Bay […]

This short children’s film highlights how a community can come together to help clean up our coasts of marine pollution. Demonstrates the importance of protecting our ocean from marine pollution and delivers the message that all oceans of the world are part of one global ocean. Sponsored by the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Foundation, the Monterey […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Microplastics are tiny plastic beads that can be found in many beauty and health products including toothpaste, hand soap, body wash, and facial scrubs. These plastics are commonly referred to as micro beads and are often used as abrasives and exfoliants. All products with the ingredients […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> In this second piece of my experience sailing the ocean blue, I describe the research methods we used to document levels of plastic marine pollution across the subtropical and subpolar gyres in the North Atlantic during my 2014 voyage with 5Gyres Institute.  Last spring I was […]