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Titolo

Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion

Editore

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston

Data di pubblicazione

2007

Lingua

Inglese

ISBN 10

0618581316

ISBN 13

9780618581313

Rilegatura

Hardcover

Edizione

First Edition, First Printing

Condizione

Fine

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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.

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