Science Forward

After finding out that the New York Times recently published another article about marine plastics, I was excited to read it and write a blog post on it with our class’s critiques of the last article we read together in mind. The last New York Times article we read in class was very sensational. It […]

At the end of the summer, I figured that I wouldn’t have the opportunity to dig my feet into the sand for another whole year. Lucky me, I got a chance to go to Plumb Beach this past Friday to do a plastic survey of the beach. When I first arrived at the beach I […]

According to Charles J. Moore, author of the New York Times OP-ED article, “Choking the Oceans With Plastic,” our oceans are becoming oversaturated with a wide variety of plastics. Moore, who is a captain in the U.S. merchant marine, uses compelling story telling skills to compose his observations at sea into an easy to read […]