Thursday, June 26, 2008

THE GREENPEACE REPORT


"We're watching in awe as pieces of trash large and small pass us by, and with our sampling and discovery efforts, we can even see how this garbage is becoming one with ocean creatures." LINK

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

SALPS



Chordate jellyfishes known as "salps," which are among the fastest-growing multicellular organisms on the planet




What appears to look like a creature inside a plastic bottle is actually the creature itself. This cross-section of a northern Pacific salp bears an uncanny resemblance to the trash and plastic debris within which it lives.



Salps communicate through light. We hope to decipher this language of light and seek strategies of communication.