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Your best guarantee for keeping ancient books in good shape is prevention. Keep them from getting humid and carefully vacuum and dust them every week. Perform preventative maintenance. The more you get to know your book, the better you’ll know what works for it. Collaborators: The Ocean Cleanup Foundation (NL), Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut (US), Marine Sensor Systems Group, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (DE), Teledyne Optech (USA), The Modelling House (NZ), Australian Institute of Marine Science, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre (AUS), Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (SA). Collaborators: UMR ENTROPIE, University of Reunion Island, Reunion Island (FR), Centre d'Étude et Découverte de Tortues Marine (CEDTM), Reunion Island (FR), The Ocean Cleanup (NL), Kelonia, The Marine Turtle Observatory of Reunion Island, Reunion Island (FR),

When the book is dry (it usually takes at least a week), it's ready to be cleaned using these steps: 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.

2. Get The Dirt First

Ocean plastic can persist in sea surface waters, eventually accumulating in remote areas of the world’s oceans. Here we characterize and quantify a major ocean plastic accumulation zone formed in subtropical waters between California and Hawaii: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). Our model, calibrated with data from multi-vessel and aircraft surveys, predicted at least 79 (45-129) thousand tonnes of ocean plastic are floating inside an area of 1.6 million km2; a figure four to sixteen times higher than previously reported. We explain this difference through the use of more robust methods to quantify larger debris. Over three-quarters of the GPGP mass was carried by debris larger than 5 cm and at least 46% was comprised of fishing nets. Microplastics accounted for 8% of the total mass but 94% of the estimated 1.8 (1.1-3.6) trillion pieces floating in the area. Plastic collected during our study has specific characteristics such as small surface-to-volume ratio, indicating that only certain types of debris have the capacity to persist and accumulate at the surface of the GPGP. Finally, our results suggest that ocean plastic pollution within the GPGP is increasing exponentially and at a faster rate than in surrounding waters. Plastic has been detected in the ocean in most locations where scientists have looked for it. While ubiquitous in the environment, plastic pollution is heterogeneous, and plastics of varying composition, shape, and size accumulate differently in the global ocean. Many physical and biological processes influence the transport of plastics in the marine environment. Here we focus on physical processes and how they can naturally sort floating plastics at the ocean surface and within its interior. We introduce a new open-source GPU-accelerated numerical model, ADVECT, which simulates the three-dimensional dispersal of large arrays of modelled ocean plastics with varying size, shape, and density. We use this model to run a global simulation and find that buoyant particles are sorted in the ocean according to their size, both at the surface due to wind-driven drift and in the water column due to their rising velocity. Finally, we compare our findings with recent literature reporting the size distribution of plastics in the ocean and discuss which observations can and cannot be explained by the physical processes encoded in our model. All About Oceans Information PowerPoint with Quiz - This fascinating PowerPoint is all about the world's oceans, including the names of the world's five oceans and the creatures that live in them. There's a fun quiz to test children's knowledge at the end too! Art gum is your best choice for cleaning cloth covers. You can use Absorbene, too, as well as document cleaning pads as described above. Some resources suggest using a clean cloth with a little fabric softener, but try to avoid exposing your book to chemicals you’re not 100% sure about. If you really, really think you need to get the cloth moist, use almost no water and dry the book thoroughly afterward. Leather

Collaborators: The Ocean Cleanup, Rotterdam (NL), Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen University & Research (NL), Plastic debris has become an abundant pollutant in marine, coastal and riverine environments, posing a large threat to aquatic life. Effective measures to mitigate and prevent marine plastic pollution require a thorough understanding of its origin and eventual fate. Several models have estimated that land-based sources are the main source of marine plastic pollution, although field data to substantiate these estimates remain limited. Current methodologies to measure riverine plastic transport require the availability of infrastructure and accessible riverbanks, but, to obtain measurements on a higher spatial and temporal scale, new monitoring methods are required. This paper presents a new methodology for quantifying riverine plastic debris using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), including a first application on Klang River, Malaysia. Additional plastic measurements were done in parallel with the UAV-based approach to make comparisons between the two methods. The spatiotemporal distribution of the plastics obtained with both methods show similar patterns and variations. With this, we show that UAV-based monitoring methods are a promising alternative for currently available approaches for monitoring riverine plastic transport, especially in remote and inaccessible areas. Collaborators: The Ocean Cleanup (NL), Marine Sensor Systems Group, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (DE), ARGANS Limited (FR), Despite recent advances in remote sensing of large accumulations of floating plastic debris, mainly in coastal regions, the quantification of individual macroplastic objects (>50 cm) remains challenging. Here, we have trained an object-detection algorithm by selecting and labeling footage of floating plastic debris recorded offshore with GPS-enabled action cameras aboard vessels of opportunity. Macroplastic numerical concentrations are estimated by combining the object detection solution with bulk processing of the optical data. Our results are consistent with macroplastic densities predicted by global plastic dispersal models, and reveal first insights into how camera recorded offshore macroplastic densities compare to micro- and mesoplastic concentrations collected with neuston trawls.

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The next two photos are even more devastating. On the left, a mass of skiers is shown on a slope the next photo shows only their skis and poles, grouped together in rows. No people, no "chaos" only "neat" rather desiccated looking rows of skis & poles. 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. 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 As you can see, the whole process is pretty cumbersome and there’s no guarantee you’ll get rid of all the leftovers. This is why we recommend to completely uninstall apps with CleanMyMac X. The app has a dedicated app Uninstaller that solves the task. 11. Reduce clutter Wear a protective mask, disposable gloves, and long-sleeved clothing to prevent inhaling or handling the spores. Mold spores spread easily and can cause problems with your health and belongings.