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Charles J. Moore
Charles J. Moore is an internationally recognized expert on marine plastic pollution and is the Research Director at (Algalita Marine Research and Education ), a nonprofit organization working to prevent ocean plastic pollution through research and education. Moore is known for his work in the Eastern North Pacific Gyre, commonly called the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch',〔(Donovan Hohn (June 22, 2008), "Sea of Trash", ''New York Times'' )〕 an area of the Pacific Ocean strewn with floating plastic debris, most of it smaller than a grain of rice. In collaboration with researchers at the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, he developed the first protocols for monitoring marine plastic debris which are now used worldwide by oceanographic researchers and citizen scientists. As Algalita’s Research Director, Captain Moore and his team have logged 15 voyages to the Garbage Patch since 1999.〔(TED (2009) Charles Moore, Oceanographer )〕
==Great Pacific Garbage Patch==
In 1997, while returning to southern California after finishing the Los Angeles-to-Hawaii Transpac sailing race, he and his crew caught sight of trash floating in the North Pacific Gyre, one of the most remote regions of the ocean. He wrote articles about the extent of this garbage, and the effects on sea life, which attracted significant attention in the media.
“As I gazed from the deck at the surface of what ought to have been a pristine ocean,” Moore later wrote in an essay for Natural History, “I was confronted, as far as the eye could see, with the sight of plastic. It seemed unbelievable, but I never found a clear spot. In the week it took to cross the subtropical high, no matter what time of day I looked, plastic debris was floating everywhere: bottles, bottle caps, wrappers, fragments.” An oceanographic colleague of Moore’s dubbed this floating junk yard “the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.”
His 1999 study showed that there was six times more plastic in this part of the ocean than the zooplankton that feeds ocean life.〔(Charles Moore (Feb 2009), "Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic" ''TED: Ideas worth spreading'' )〕 In 2002, a later study showed that even off the coast of California, plastic outweighed zooplankton by a factor of 5:2. These numbers were significantly higher than expected, and shocked many oceanographers.
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