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Trawling Through the Five Gyres: A Microplastic Research Study

This paper describes an educational lesson plan — not a primary research study — in which middle-school students count and classify microplastic samples collected from the five ocean gyres to learn about marine debris. While not a peer-reviewed field study, it reflects the level of scientific consensus on ocean microplastic accumulation (estimated at over 170 trillion particles) and its importance for science literacy.

2024 Current The Journal of Marine Education 2 citations
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Open science resources from the Tara Pacific expedition across coral reef and surface ocean ecosystems

Researchers describe the open science data resources generated by the Tara Pacific expedition (2016-2018), which sampled coral reef ecosystems around 32 Pacific islands and 249 ocean surface locations, collecting nearly 58,000 samples for biogeochemical, molecular, and imaging analysis. The paper provides a comprehensive description of sampling methodology and explains how to access the diverse environmental and biological datasets released for open scientific use.

2022 8 citations