The intact flower bouquet is filled with life - the line-up of flowers and leaves, dissected, ripped apart - yes, we can clearly see the flowers and leaves, and they are I suppose "pleasingly" arranged in rows, but the magic of the plants and flowers has evaporated.

Collaborators: The Ocean Cleanup Foundation (NL), The Modelling House Limited (NZ), North Carolina State University (USA). Collaborators: The Modelling House (New Zealand), HKV Consultants (The Netherlands), North Carolina State University (USA)Thomas Mani , Yotwadee Hawangchu, Pummarin Khamdahsag, Jenyuk Lohwacharin, Doungkamon Phihusut, Isara Arsiranant, Chalatip Junchompoo and Ratchanon Piemjaiswang Clara Leistenschneider, Patricia Burkhardt-Holm, Thomas Mani, Sebastian Primpke, Heidi Taubner and Gunnar Gerdts Collaborators: Stichting The Ocean Cleanup (NL), Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen University (NL), CARE, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (VN), University of Grenoble Alpes (FR), Aix-Marseille University, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Université de Toulon (FR), Faculty of Geology and Petroleum Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (VN) Collaborators: NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Marine Microbiology & Biogeochemistry (NL), University of Vigo, Biological Oceanography Group (ES), The Ocean Cleanup (NL), Egger Research and Consulting (CH), Utrecht University, Faculty of Science, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (NL), Utrecht University, Faculty of Geosciences, Department of Earth Sciences (NL), University of Tromsø, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (NO) The Undersea Cleaning Spree' is a beautiful plastic pollution book for KS1. Exploring the concept of plastic pollution in the ocean in a child-friendly way, this book would be great to use on World Oceans Day or during a topic about pollution. This child-friendly look at ocean plastics sees the problem from the viewpoint of the sea creatures.

Such a great fun book for having some really good discussions and making some really good changes. The story is written in a fun way and the illustrations are lively and really add to the story with brilliant facial expressions, and an insight into Jamaican culture. We loved the variety of activities andTo reduce the threatening consequences of plastic pollution on marine ecosystems and global economy, The Ocean Cleanup (TOC) Foundation develops technologies to extract, prevent, and intercept plastic debris from coastal and oceanic environments. The core technology being optimized is the use of floating booms placed perpendicular to the main ocean plastic flow so it can concentrate plastic debris to a point where it can be extracted, shipped and processed in a cost-effective manner. To better understand the behavior of such a system in the vertical plane and to calibrate dynamic analysis models as well as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models, TOC conducted model tests of a portion of the boom at 1:5 scale. These tests were carried out in the Concept Basin at the Maritime Research Institute of the Netherlands (MARIN). The aim of this paper is to present those tests along with the assessment of the dynamics of the boom and the validation of a dynamic analysis model to predict the mooring loads on the system. Earn It, by Cinders McLeod : We absolutely love this simple introduction to earning money after performing some hard work. Bun wants to be a singer, a rich and famous one! But Mom tells Bun she won’t get rich and famous overnight. She has to work hard, learn as much as she can, and practice, practice, practice. But that takes training, and training takes money! Carrots are money in Bunnyland, and Bun doesn’t have any! Bun begins helping her mom with chores around the house to earn some extra carrots, and the more she pitches in, the more she loves the feeling of earning her way to success.

Collaborators: Flanders Marine Institute (BE), Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Aquatic Management (BE), The Ocean Cleanup (NL), Egger Research and Consulting (CH), Ghent University, Research Group Aquatic Ecology (BE) At present, the distribution of plastic debris in the ocean water column remains largely unknown. Such information, however, is required to assess the exposure of marine organisms to plastic pollution as well as to calculate the ocean plastic mass balance. Here, we provide water column profiles (0–300 m water depth) of plastic (0.05–5 cm in size) concentration and key planktonic species from the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. The amount of plastic decreases rapidly in the upper few meters, from ~ 1 item/m3 (~ 1000 µg/m3) at the sea surface to values of ~ 0.001–0.01 items/m3 (~ 0.1–10 µg/m3) at 300 m depth. Ratios of plastic to plankton varied between ~ 10–5 and 1 plastic particles per individual with highest ratios typically found in the surface waters. We further observed that pelagic ratios were generally higher in the water column below the subtropical gyre compared to those in more coastal ecosystems. Lastly, we show plastic to (non-gelatinous) plankton ratios could be as high as ~ 102–107 plastic particles per individual when considering reported concentrations of small microplastics Martin Alejandro Gonzalez Jimenez, Andriarimina Daniel Rakotonirina, Bruno Sainte-Rose and David James Cox Bayesian Belief Networks, Decision support framework, Ecological modelling, Plastic waste mitigation technologies, Unintentional bycatch Collaborators: Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentations et Approches Numériques, LOCEAN-IPSL, Sorbonne Université (FR),The Long Way Here (A Refugee Journey) eBook - A lovely story to help children understand and empathise with the journey of some refugees. The problem is, if you just move an app to the Bin, it will leave lots of traces behind. To get rid of the app leftovers, you need to open Finder > Go > Go to folder > ~/Library/Application Support/Your app name, and delete the contents of the folder. Repeat the same in ~/Library/Caches/Your app name. Then, go to ~/Library/Preferences, type the name of your app, and delete app Preferences. Andrew J. Tanentzap, Samuel Cottingham, Jérémy Fonvielle, Isobel Riley, Lucy M. Walker, Samuel G. Woodman, Danai Kontou, Christian M. Pichler, Erwin Reisner and Laurent Lebreton Margot Thibault, Ludovic Hoarau, Laurent Lebreton, Matthieu Le Corre, Mathieu Barret, Emmanuel Cordier, Stéphane Ciccione, Sarah-Jeanne Royer, Alexandra Ter Halle , Aina Ramanampamonjy, Claire Jean and Mayeul Dalleau

Collaborators: The Ocean Cleanup, Rotterdam (NL), Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen University & Research (NL),

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