http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natural-history/expeditions-collecting/coccoliths-blog/?p=5 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:16:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natural-history/expeditions-collecting/coccoliths-blog/?p=5#comment-21 Jeremy Young Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:32:27 +0000 http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natural-history/expeditions-collecting/coccoliths-blog/?p=5#comment-21 Karen A good question about the plastic, hence the slow answer. As far as I can tell the answer is that there is no obvious accumulation of plastic in the Atlantic gyres. Certainly I did not see any rubbish at sea or collect any in the plankton net samples, and when I asked a few people about this they did not have any obvious anecdotal evidence. I have no idea what is accumulating on the beaches of mid-Atlantic islands though. Jeremy Karen
A good question about the plastic, hence the slow answer. As far as I can tell the answer is that there is no obvious accumulation of plastic in the Atlantic gyres. Certainly I did not see any rubbish at sea or collect any in the plankton net samples, and when I asked a few people about this they did not have any obvious anecdotal evidence. I have no idea what is accumulating on the beaches of mid-Atlantic islands though.
Jeremy

]]> http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natural-history/expeditions-collecting/coccoliths-blog/?p=5#comment-4 Karen James Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:42:52 +0000 http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natural-history/expeditions-collecting/coccoliths-blog/?p=5#comment-4 Another excellent post. I did not know there were deep sea coccolithophores before now. Hope you keep getting such lovely weather! I'm curious to know if the North Atlantic gyre concentrates plastic the same way the North Pacific gyre does... Another excellent post. I did not know there were deep sea coccolithophores before now. Hope you keep getting such lovely weather! I’m curious to know if the North Atlantic gyre concentrates plastic the same way the North Pacific gyre does…

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