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Flotsametrics and the floating world : how one man's obsession with runaway sneakers and rubber ducks revolutionized ocean science
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Flotsametrics and the floating world : how one man's obsession with runaway sneakers and rubber ducks revolutionized ocean science

Author: Curtis C Ebbesmeyer; Eric Scigliano
Publisher: New York, NY : Smithsonian Books : Collins, ©2009.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Pioneering oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer unravels the mystery of marine currents, uncovers the astonishing story of flotsam, and changes the world's view of trash, the ocean, and our global environment by calling attention to the threats that global warming and disintegrating plastic waste pose to the seas--and to us.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Curtis C Ebbesmeyer; Eric Scigliano
ISBN: 0061558419 9780061558412
OCLC Number: 232978045
Description: xvi, 286 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Preface: A new world -- Chasing water -- Oil and icebergs -- Messages in bottles -- Eureka, a sneaker! -- Coffins, castaways, and cadavers -- The admiral of the floating world -- Borne on a black current -- The great conveyor -- Ashes to ashes, life from the sea -- Junk beach and garbage patch -- The synthetic sea -- The music of the gyres.
Responsibility: Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano.
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Pioneering oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer unravels the mystery of marine currents, uncovers the astonishing story of flotsam, and changes the world's view of trash, the ocean, and our global environment by calling attention to the threats that global warming and disintegrating plastic waste pose to the seas--and to us.

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