Climate Change Conversation with WHOI Scientist

Climate change is real and our options are clear, says WHOI oceanographer Ray Schmitt in a conversation with Oceanus. He served on the National Research Council study group whose new report, America’s Climate Choices, lays out the state of climate science, the steps we should take to combat climate change—and the consequences if we do not.

Science in Service to the Nation
A conversation with oceanographer Ray Schmitt
http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=77226&sectionid=1001

Follow Plastics at Sea Expedition

Follow Sea Education Association’s “Plastics at SEA” Expedition, the first federally funded research expedition on plastic pollution in the North Atlantic. To date, this research cruise has counted 42,186 pieces of plastic in 71 net tows over a period of 19 days. Although they have been averaging 100 or 200 pieces of plastic per tow, on Monday, June 21, one of the nets recovered 23,000 pieces of plastic in a 30-minute tow which translates to about 26 million pieces per km2. This is a record for SEA, which has been sampling plastic marine debris in the Atlantic Ocean for more than 25 years.

Watch the mid-cruise report

Listen to Captain Chris McGuire’s audio report from sea

Visit http://plastics.sea.edu/ daily for the latest information