Science and Allied Health &

Staff Resource Center  Present

Pacific Garbage Patch

"Every day, every night, we'd pull up samples and pour the water through a sieve. It would be completely clogged

with tiny pieces of plastic," Dr. Gassel told the San Jose Mercury-News upon her return. "It was so disturbing."

Dr. Margie Gassel with CalEPA recently returned from a research cruise sponsored by Project Kaisei to investigate the Pacific Garbage Patch.  Project Kaisei’s mission was to study the North Pacific Gyre and the marine debris that has collected in this oceanic region, to determine how to capture the debris and to study the possible retrieval and processing techniques that could be potentially employed to detoxify and recycle these materials into diesel fuel.   Dr. Gassel will give a 30 min presentation (plus time for questions) about the project and her research. The talk is geared to both the general and the scientific audience.

For information on Project Kaisei, go to:  http://www.projectkaisei.org/index.html.  

Monday, November 23, 2009

LR105

6:00pm -7:00pm

Flex Credit is available for this presentation