ecoLIVING London

The Department of Earth Sciences, in partnership with The Centre for Environment and Sustainability, presents:

PLASTIC OCEAN: How Plastics Pollution is Threatening the World’s Oceans
Speaker: Captain Charles Moore
Date: Monday, February 13th,
Time: 12:30-1:30
Location: North Campus Building 114, UWO

Captain Charles Moore, a world-renowned investigator in the field of plastics pollution and founder of the Marine Research Foundation, set out in his research vessel, Alguita, to study the anthropogenic contaminants in coastal waters. He discovered an enormous quantity of plastic debris floating in the North Pacific Central Gyre and later published scientific data indicating 6 times more plastic fragments than zooplankton by weight in the surface waters of the central Pacific. A subsequent study showed that zooplankton is outweighed by plastics by a factor of 2.5 in the surface waters of Southern California. Moore’s review article “Synthetic polymers in the marine environment: A rapidly increasing, long term threat,” was published in Environmental Research.

Moore’s work has been featured on Nightline, Good Morning America, National Public Radio, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, and the National Geographic special “Strange Days on Planet Earth.”

Captain Moore’s recent book, Plastic Ocean, is a chilling account of how plastics pollute our oceans in inconceivable ways. Book Signing to Follow Presentation. Everyone is welcome.