The P.E.T. is a do-it-yourself ocean plastic monitoring device based on filtering plastics through a mesh bag containing textured balls constructed out of materials easily found in household settings.
This project tests three different ways of classifying marine waste to determine how different methods of affect dimensions of data quality and highlight different areas of common knowledge and concern for citizen scientists.
Are your fish eating plastic? We want to find out! We will be collecting fish guts during Newfoundland’s food fishery this summer (2015) to see if fish are ingesting plastics in this area.
Your can use beach clean ups to create data about local marine macroplastics. This protocol uses the Marine Debris Tracker so data goes into a public data set that scientists can use.
How can we do research in environments suffering from pollution that is difficult to see, wide spread, will last in geological timescales, and is affecting human and ecological health in unpredictable ways?
On the 5 Gyres SEA Change expedition, I’ll be testing #BabyLegs and other DIY scientific instruments to see how they measure up with the ones used by most marine scientists.
Created with baby’s tights, soda pop bottles, and other inexpensive and easy to find materials, #Babylegs can be used to trawl for floating marine plastics by hand or from a vessel.
