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What's that JUNK in my water?

Submitted by alpine on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 09:50.
This jar contains a surface water sample from the North Pacific Gyre.

"Turning the Tide on Plastics" June 7th 3pm-5pm Cypress Lounge

Save Our Shores and Surfrider Foundation-Santa Cruz bring you “Turning the Tide on Plastic,” an afternoon with Anna Cummins and Dr. Marcus Eriksen of Algalita Marine Research Foundation. This event is part of JUNKride, the third phase of AMRF’s Message in a Bottle Project. Cummins and Eriksen will share stories of their research in the North Pacific Gyre and give local leaders samples of surface seawater from the Gyre that illustrate the urgency of the plastics issue. The event is from 3-5 pm on Sunday June 7th at Cypress Lounge, 120 Union Street in downtown Santa Cruz. It will include a multi-media presentation from Algalita, local issues updates and ways to get involved from Save Our Shores and Surfrider, a raffle and time to talk with Cummins and Eriksen. The event is FREE to the public and all ages can attend. Food and drink are available for purchase, but are not required to attend the event. Cypress Lounge is co-sponsoring the event.

Algalita's Message in a Bottle (MIB)project is raising awareness of the plastic soup that is plaguing the world's oceans. MIB began with Phase I, Algalita’s February 2008 research voyage into the North Pacific Gyre to investigate plastic pollution. During this 6th expedition through the Gyre, the Algalita crew found a twofold increase in the surface abundance of plastic since 1999, as well as new evidence of plastic ingestion by fish. Phase II followed in summer 2008 with the voyage of the JUNKraft, an awareness campaign in which 2 crew-members drifted across the Pacific Ocean from Long Beach, CA to Hawaii on a raft made from 15,000 plastic bottles. Phase III, or JUNKride, wraps up the project with a 2,000 mile bicycle journey from British Columbia, Canada to Tijuana, Mexico distributing samples of the Gyre to local leaders along the way.

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