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		<title>The New Reef</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[25.13N, 153.56E “Net ball!” Hank yelled. “There’s an Masked Booby sitting on top of it,” Cynthia says.  It turns out to be a 500lb ball of netting, rope and line from over 80 sources, all different, and fragments of commercial products, including 3 toothbushes, 1 cigarette lighter and two plastic straws.  The bulk of these, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Garbage Patch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Garbage Patch 20.31.42N, 155.11.2009E We’re 1300 miles into our trip, and somewhere around 21N,156E – still balmy, sweaty, muggy, stinky, but the 14 people on this 72ft. boat are all smiles celebrating Bob’s 64th birthday in the middle of the western garbage patch of the North Pacific Gyre. This is not the well-known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research is Underway!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 21:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We launched the hi-speed trawl yesterday and dragged it until this morning, approximately 100 nautical miles through the Pacific. Research has begun. As Marcus unveiled the sample, the crew surrounded him with curiosity. The sample included several small fragments of colorful plastic (at least twenty pieces) and a single nurdle, a pre-production pellet used to make all plastic items. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 8 from the Sea Dragon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 18:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have not seen land or any boats since we left, about 1,000 miles. We started sampling 2 days ago. We had to wait to be 200 miles from international water to start. We have not yet reached the &#8220;accumulation zone&#8221;, but each trawl has some pieces of plastic. We have seen very little debris [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Aha&#8221; moment: Valerie Lecoeur</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 21:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It all started several years ago when I began doing “Trash &#38; Treasure Hunts” at the beach with our three young children. Inevitably, we’d find more trash than treasure (though, with young kids, sometimes they’re one and the same). Over time, it upset me more and more to see so much man-made debris, especially plastic, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish on!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 22:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Fish on!” Hank yells.  I can hear it through the small window that divides my bunk, where I was sleeping, to the back deck, where Hank, Tyler and Shanlee are gathered to reel in our first catch of the trip. “It’s a tuna…no…a Wahoo,” Shanlee says with excitement.  She’s recently finished her yachtmaster course, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re trawlin!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 19:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re trawlin! We did a test trawl in Majuro Atoll to make sure it all works.  The trawl is a 60cm wide net with a 333 micron mesh, roughly 1/3 of a mm.  It&#8217;s smaller than the holes in your t-shirt.  We drag it across the sea surface for exactly 60 minutes and record the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventure sailing is serious business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 19:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re preparing to leave in a few minutes.  Rodrigo, our skipper, has giving the safety briefing.  &#8220;Keep your life vest on, especially at night, cause if you&#8217;re overboard we&#8217;ll likely not find you.&#8221;  Adventure sailing is serious business.  Our science requires a boat that can get us anywhere in the world.  5 Gyres and Algalita [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setting sail from Majuro Atoll</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 02:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just arrived on Majuro Atoll in the Marshal Islands. As the jumbo jet turned to make a landing, I could see the thin ring of the atoll from the plane window.  Within a few minutes we were on the ground, then headed to the Sea Dragon, sitting calmly in the center of the Atoll.   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Crew!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leg 1 May 1 – 21 Studying the “Western Pacific Garbage Patch”-  Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands to Tokyo Marcus Eriksen &#8211; Research Expedition Leader Marcus Eriksen received his Ph.D. in Science Education from University of Southern California in 2003, months before embarking on a 2000-mile, 5-month journey down the Mississippi River on a homemade raft.  His [...]]]></description>
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