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| Survey at the Ocean Shores in Pacific Northwest |
Please click HERE to see survey result. |
(March 28, 2013)
On March 28, 2013, we did another arrival situation research of Asian marine debris at the coast of Ocean Shores in Washington State. An interesting observation to make in this survey are the additions of debris not following the usual find of beverage bottles and bottlecaps.
We also collected more Japanese debris compared to previous research surveys done. |
| This may or may not suggest a possible correlation with the Japanese Tsunami of 2011. |
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| Survey at the Ocean Shores in Pacific Northwest |
Please click HERE to see survey result. |
(Aug. 7, 2013)
On August 6 through 7, 2012, we had another arrival situation research of Asian related marine debris at two beaches along the coast of Washington State.
Those beaches were Ocean Shores and Copalis National Wildlife Refuge near Forks, the famous movie location town from the "Twilight Saga". |
| We measured radiation dose with a SMB-20 Geiger muller counter tube equipped radiation detector |
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(April 28-29, 2012)
We made another arrival situation survey of marine debris which were originated in Southeast Asian countries and Japanese Tsunami related marine debris which was occurred right after the magnitude 9.1 earth quake on Mar. 11, 2011.
Please click HERE to see survey result. |
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A Japanese fishing boat, lost at sea last year spotted off the coast of
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A Japanese fishing boat that was lost at sea on March 11 of last year was spotted this year on March 20 off the coast of Queen Charlotte Islands of British Colombia in Canada.
We were able to locate the owner of this boat in Hakodate of Hokkaido, but the ship was anchored at Hachinohe Port in Aomori Prefecture at the time the tsunami hit Northern Japan. |
Photo Courtesy: Canadian Department of National Defense |
The image blow is our own caluculation based on the actual day by day ocean current direction and speed data, using NOAA's Ocean Surface Current Simulator.
The red line is our course caluculation of debris starting from Hachinohe port (40.5472, 141.530914 ). This line is a calculation without any wind elements, so the end of the red line is supposed to be the basic prediction of the location of debris as of March 24, 2012, 379 days after the tsunami.
However, this boat came much closer to the Pacific Northwest (yellow line), only 278 km off the west of Queen Charlotte Island. This fishing boat has reached the Pacific Northwest at an amazingly fast speed than we originally anticipated. This may be because larger debris get more tail wind effects. |
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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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