Sentences with phrase «gyres team»

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A team of researchers with 5 Gyres Institute, a non-profit California - based environmental activist group, collected samples from lakes Erie, Superior and Huron last summer and found large quantities of round, plastic pellets.

Those living below 20 meters in the sediments of the North Pacific Gyre are consuming oxygen at a rate of 0.001 micromoles of oxygen per liter of sediment per year, the team reports online today in Science.

I was on a sailboat with a team of maverick researchers from the 5 Gyres Institute trying to answer a simple question about plastic pollution: «How much is out there?»

The research team, including the authors of the study, Peter Davison and Rebecca Asch, traveled across hundreds of miles of the North Pacific ocean gyre, collecting fish specimens, water samples and marine debris at depths ranging from the surface to thousands of feet under.

During the summers of 2012 and 2013, chemist Sherri Mason led a team of researchers from the U.S. - based 5 Gyres Institute to measure the quantity of microplastics in the waters of the Great Lakes.