Algalita in the News 2007
2007
Honolulu Star Bulletin, Alexandre Da Silva, November 11, 2007
"Flotilla of trash trickles into isles"
A visiting California researcher says Hawaii is "being invaded" by marine debris, some of it detaching from a large concentration of junk in an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. >>
San Francisco Chronicle, Justin Berton, October 30, 2007
"Feds want to survey, possibly clean up vast garbage pit in Pacific"
The so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a stewy body of plastic and marine debris that floats an estimated 1,000 miles west of San Francisco, is a shape-shifting mass far too large, delicate and remote to ever be cleaned up, according to a researcher who recently returned from the area. But that might not stop the federal government from trying. >>
San Francisco Chronicle, Justin Berton, October 19, 2007
"Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean"
At the start of the Academy Award-winning movie "American Beauty," a character videotapes a plastic grocery bag as it drifts into the air, an event he casts as a symbol of life's unpredictable currents, and declares the romantic moment as a "most beautiful thing." To the eyes of an oceanographer, the image is pure catastrophe. >>
2006
2005
- ORV Alguita Returns from 4th Voyage to Gyre
- Crew Accounts from 2005 Pacific Gyre Voyage
- ORV Alguita Set to Leave July 23, 2005 for Gyre
- Charles Moore Receives the John M. Olguin Award
- Amigos de los Rios Presents AMRF a Science Award
2004
2003
- Algalita MRF Honored at the Water Quality Awards
- Update on Latest Watershed Project
- AMRF Celebrates Earth Day 2003
- Escalera Nautica at Santa Rosaliita March - April 2003
- Preliminary Coastal Analysis of Escalera Nautica at Bahia Santa Rosaliita
- Where Debris Meet the Sea
2002
- 9/24/02 Hawaii Public Radio (1:35 running time)
- Honolulu Weekly, Drastically Plastic
- 10/14/02 Honolulu Advertiser, Hawaii's Environment
- KGMB / TVCh 9 Honolulu (3 stories, plastics)
- Ch 2, Honolulu (plastics)
- Ch 4 KITV (ABC) Spinner Dolphin Study on ORV Alguita
- Santa Barbara News Press, editorial
- 10/27/02 KEYT-3 Santa Barbara TV (during hospitality suite)
- Press conference at CA & WO event
- 11/4/02 US News and World Report, pp 58-60 (10/27/02)
- 11/8/02 KOGO San Francisco (plastics)
- 11/13/02 OSGOOD FILE Interview (National radio coverage)
- 11/15/02 Denver Post (Escalera Nautica, Pro Esteros)
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