Pacific Garbage Patch BP 11

Today in my Earth Science class we learned about the Research done from the SEAPLEX Expedition at Scripps. It was all about the Pacific Patch.

Gyres accumulate plastic debris because the center of a gyre, the convergent zone, calms down and has a slower pace which causes the trapping of debris and then more accumulate.

Plastics found in the oceans are so small because they detiorate from the sun, time, and salt water.

Impacts that plastics have on animals living in the open ocean include the killings of animals. Their stomachs become filled with plastic making them fill full. This causes them to not eat and then die from starvation.

To reduce the problem we can change policy, do beach cleanups, use our technology to make better and healthier plastics, and Bioeremediation

Between the years 1972-1987, the highest concentration of plastics in the North Pacific Garbage Patch was 0.1.

Between the years 1999-2010, the highest concentration of plastics in the North Pacific Garbage Patch was 10.

Between the years 1999-2010, the highest concentration of plastics in the North Pacific Garbage Patch was 9900%

In Fish, the biological impact on fish included 9.22

I think the impact of fish and I digesting plastic would ruine our digestive system and would cause both to not eat properly or digest our food properly thus leading to death.

The percent of barnacles that plastics in their guts was 33.50%

I think that the presence of a lot of plastic debris is good for them. It give them a place to live where otherwise they would have lived on a log now they have a better place to latch on to

The range from 1972-93 was 0-05.

The relationship might change the balance in a bad way.

The range from 2009-2010 is 0-4.5

I think there is a small postive relationship between the two.