Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsa

Griffin Burns, Loree

ISBN 10: 0618581316 / ISBN 13: 9780618581313

Editore: HMH Books for Young Readers, 2007

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsa
• Editore: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0618581316
• ISBN 13: 9780618581313
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

Describes the work of scientist Curtis Ebbesmeyer, whose multi-year project of tracking plastic items accidentally spilled by ocean cargo ships has heightened awareness of the dangers that these items present to ocean life and has inspired similar projects for other types of debris.

Informazioni sull?autore

Loree Griffin Burns, Ph.D., did her doctoral work far from the Pacific Ocean, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. While writing this book, however, she made several trips to the Pacific coast. Ms. Burns lives in Massachusetts with her husband and children.