Sentences with phrase «gyres worked»

As part of the Every Kid in a Park Initiative, 5 Gyres worked with the United States Forest Service to educate 2,000 4th graders in Los Angeles and Hawaii on the plastic pollution issue and how it affects our public lands.

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In 2010 she hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on freighter ships to the United States, where she worked with the 5 Gyres Institute in California on the first ever comprehensive study of plastic in the world's oceans.

Their work, published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, did find millions of pieces of plastic debris floating in five large subtropical gyres in the world's oceans.

She tells me the way it works is that singers up North holler songs into an enormous metal cone, whereupon their voices are scarified in a thin gyre on a wax cylinder the size of a bean can.

Imagining artistic practice as a sedimentary process of material and social transformation (akin to a trash heap or scrap yard), Alli works in installation, performance, image - making and visual research to rummage in the aesthetics of precarity, collapse, and by extension, the vast formlessness of the Earth's ocean gyres.

As Cooper's work heads to Boston, one can not help but think that his impact as an artist is following the widening gyre of his paintings.

In an email chat, Yair Rosenthal of Rutgers University and Braddock Linsley of Columbia University, whose related work was explored here in 2013, said the Argo analysis appeared to support their view that giant subtropical gyres are the place where heat carried on currents from the tropics descends into the deeper ocean.

In addition to that, they are also working with 5 Gyres, to keep a daily report of their position and what they see, such as marine life, trash, birds etc..

More from TreeHugger's voyage with 5 Gyres Aboard with 5 Gyres in the South Pacific: The Trawling Begins Tsunami Ruins, And Music With Impossible Nature Surroundings At Robinson Crusoe Island On The Way To The (Possibly) Great South Pacific Garbage Patch 5 Gyres Founders Explain How Plastic Pollution in Oceans Really Works (Video) TreeHugger Joins 5 Gyres To Sail The South Pacific In Search Of Plastic Pollution

Aboard with 5 Gyres in the South Pacific: The Trawling Begins On The Way To The (Possibly) Great South Pacific Garbage Patch 5 Gyres Founders Explain How Plastic Pollution in Oceans Really Works (Video)

The 5 Gyres Institute worked with Swift Engineering, STEAMtank, and Packaging 2.0 to develop and execute the project.

And these toxic plastics can work their way up the food chain and onto our plates: We caught a fish in the middle of the North Pacific Gyre and found 16 pieces of plastic in its belly.

My bet is that the hiatus is ended, mainly on the basis that it's a lot to do with variations in the ocean draw down of warmer surface water after a pacific gyre spinup circa 1995 and its subsequent working out.

More from TreeHugger and 5 Gyres Tsunami Ruins, And Music With Impossible Nature Surroundings At Robinson Crusoe Island On The Way To The (Possibly) Great South Pacific Garbage Patch 5 Gyres Founders Explain How Plastic Pollution in Oceans Really Works (Video) TreeHugger Joins 5 Gyres To Sail The South Pacific In Search Of Plastic Pollution

Charging Into the South Pacific Gyre for Plastic 5 Gyres Founders Explain How Plastic Pollution in Oceans Really Works (Video) TreeHugger Joins 5 Gyres To Sail The South Pacific In Search Of Plastic Pollution

Through the #breakfreefromplastic movement, 5 Gyres is connected to many of the organizations working globally on this issue.