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| Second Annual Survey at the Pacific Northwest |
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Through September 5th and 6th, we conducted our second arrival survey research at Ocean Shores, WA.
The purpose is to find any marine debris that may have drifted from Asia throgh ocean currents.
Please click HERE to see more detail.
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(Aug. 23, 2011)
Visiting NOAA
On July 29, 2011, we visited Mr. Nir Barnea at his office located at NOAA’s Western Regional Center in Seattle. Mr. Barnea is the West Coast Regional Coordinator and one of the key personal who introduced us to new technological and methodological approaches. It was a very exciting and educational experience to tour the huge facility and meet with wonderful researchers. |
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We were introduced to Dr. Glen Watabayashi and Ms. Nicole Rutherford, who gave us a briefing about their recent research programs. Dr. Watabayashi is an oceanographer who develops real-time simulations of ocean currents. His research allows others to view the affect that ocean currents have on marine debris. Ms. Rutherford is a biologist who is currently working on the restoration of the Elwha Dam that is located in the Olympic National Park near Port Angeles of Washington state.
We have one more important person from NOAA. Ms. Carey Morishige is Outreach Coordinator of NOAA’s Honolulu Office and has always been helpful by providing us with information and other resources needed for our research and outreach programs.
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| Thank you, 5th International Marine Debris Conference |
The Miyakojima Project and Miyakojima Kids Net gave a commitment speech during the Commitment Lunch on March 22, 2011
in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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440 people from 38 different countries attended this 5 days conference |
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Miyakojima Project poster presentation ran from March 21 through March 23 |
Please visit 5th International Marine Debris Conference Report  |
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| Finding the Cause of the Dead Turtle |
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| We found a dead turtle at a beach park in Miyako Island on Feb. 13, 2011. If you are curious about the cause of the turtle's death and more pictures, please click here. |
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| Beach Cleanup in Miyako Island |
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| We had a beach cleanup on Oct. 3, 2010, which was a nice and sunny day. The size of this small beach is about 100 meters long and 10 meters wide, but surprisingly, we filled a lot of bags with a variety of marine debris. |
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We are very happy to see that this beach became trash free after a long day of cleaning up.
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