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BIOS Atlantic Explorer

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About the Voyages

Phone: 910-616-6766

Fax: 910-962-3013

$Text Box: Our voyage into the North Atlantic is a collaborative effort with the Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science (BIOS), volunteer Jennifer O’Keefe, Director of Keep America Beautiful—New Hanover County NC, Grad student Bonnie Monteleone, University of North Carolina Wilmington and Urban Water Research Center, Irvine CA. Time line for this exploration is from 7/21/09-7/25/09 leaving from Hamilton Beach Bermuda to 75 km SE of Bermuda in the western region of the North Atlantic Gyre. We will be using a manta surface trawl to collect samples of zooplankton, plastic particulates and surface feeders known as Myctophid fish as well as podcasting and blogging to summer science camps. Captain Charles Moore’s 10 year anniversary voyage from his uncovering the North-Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch will commence with the first leg in June of 09. Bonnie Monteleone will join the third leg, boarding in Hawaii to participate in the AMRF’s ongoing study of plastic particulates in the North Pacific Gyre. We will again be using a manta surface trawl to collect samples of zooplankton, plastic particulates and Myctophid fish as well as podcasting and blogging to the media and participating schools. Another quest in is to visit Midway Island to document how our plastic trash has become the albatross* around the albatross’ neck. Plastics float in the water column, hence, look like fish. Albatross mistake it for food and feed plastics to there chicks increasing their mortality rate by large numbers. Follow our podcasts and blogs as the journey unfolds. *albatross \AL-buh-traws; AL-buh-tros\, noun: 1. Any of several large, web-footed sea birds of the family Diomedeidae that have the ability to remain aloft for long Periods of time. 2.A seemingly inescapable moral or emotional burden, as of guilt or responsibility. 3. Something burdensome that impedes action or progress.$

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