Project Kaisei: Collaborating to Protect Our Oceans
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Doug Woodring, Executive Director of Project Kaisei, explains his organization's mission and that although the media's focus is on the North Pacific Gyre, the real issue is a wake up call to the way we use materials in our daily lives, and how those impact our environment. Listen to Doug as he shares stories and pictures from their ocean voyages out to the gyre, equipment used, plastic samples collected, wildlife impacts, and how they're creating a global collaborative effort with science, technology, innovation, policy and education to help bring solutions to both products and how we use them. More at http://projectkaisei.org/
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Project Kaisei: Collaborating to Protect Our Oceans
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Editor's Notes
- Geoff… put your name on this….
- 85m every 3 min is a National Geographic number… that is about 2.7 bottles/day/person on the planet… not too hard to imagine. 90% not getting recycled… this is where a BIG opportunity lies! (Not to be mentioned directly), but in a way, recycling today is a farce. It is a way for companies, and governments, to wash their hands of the problem.. And put the onus on the consumers to do the right thing. But, there is no infrastructure for the right thing to be done, because there are so many types of plastics in the world, colors, etc…and sorting can never get done unless a logical infrastructure is put in place.
- Out of all of the debris that goes into the ocean, it is estimated that 70% sinks, and 30% floats……so, we are only going after the floating part!!! Which is not even the majority…
- There is a map a the end of this video which will stop when it is done…so you can just use a laser pointer to explain where the location is, and that there are 5 Major gyres in the world’s oceans…..and, some say 11 overall, as there are sub-gyres within the gyre… as this map shows, one near Japan, which no one has yet explored. Note that the Gyre is NOT in the world’s shipping channels, nor in the sailing route (the doldrums), so with no one going there…. No one is looking, or observing, this problem.. So no one raising awareness in the past…..
- New Horizon… 170ft research boat of Scripps Oceanography. We are the first NGO to ever work with them in this way, where we are “Participating” in finding the solutions with them, not just being a passive donor. This is important for the credibility on the issue. They are like the NASA of the oceans.
- CTD Device – “Conductivity, Temperature, Depth” - we went to 500m. 24 canisters, each only 10liters. Unexpectedly, we think we found plastic in one canister at 200m depth, and another at 160m depth. This raises the question of the “thickness” of the gyre, and its three-dimensionality which we have the new ability to test this summer with sonar.
- Manta Trawl. Both vessels used this. It is only about 1m wide, and .5m deep. We trawled regularly over 3,500 miles between both boats, and got plastic in Every Single Sample! (traveling at 1knot, 15min… so not a huge volume of water passing through).
- Cool Fish
- Debris samples with Valella (like jellyfish). Note the coloring… most of what we got was white, blue or grayish in color…the reds/oranges tend to get “eaten” first, since they look more like food (shrimp, eggs, etc).
- “ plastic soup”
- Albatross babies that starved… they “thought” they were full, as their stomachs were full…but with nothing nutritious…. The parent’s feed this to the babies, thinking themselves they have caught food.
- Midway Island
- C80. Would you be more or less likely to trust a company that partners with NGOs to battle global issues such as climate change, alleviating poverty or curing diseases, than you would be to trust a company that works alone? (Net More Likely: Much More + A Little More) Informed Publics ages 25-64 in Asia Pacific (China, India, Japan, S. Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia)