What are good web sites on ocean pollution especially for the pacific northwest area. Like Oregon.?

Question

I need this for a research paper.Any good sites that have new info will help me in writing it. I am doing the paper on my own but some good sites for sources this will help me shave some well needed time off of my searching.

Thankyou

Answer 1

This ones just on plastics in the ocean.

It's fairly new science, as this huge sea of plastic is a relatively new discovery.

http://www.algalita.org/research.html#pl...

http://www.algalita.org/pelagic_plastic....

There's an area in the Pacific Ocean twice the size of the United States that is filled with plastics, around the surface.  It all kind of gets swept into a few areas by the circular ocean currents and winds that both go clockwise.   In the center is less wind and current where the junk collects

The following is from the website above.

"Most plastic floats near the sea surface where some is mistaken for food by birds and fishes. Plastics are carried by currents and can circulate continually in the open sea. Broken, degraded plastic pieces outweigh surface zooplankton in the central North Pacific by a factor of 6-1. That means six pounds of plastic for every single pound of zooplankton.

Storms flush plastics down stream and ultimately into the ocean. Plastic debris looks bad, but it behaves worse. Far worse! Plastic pollution negatively effects trillions upon trillions of ocean inhabitants and ultimately humans.

Synthetic Sea" shows how many marine birds and

fishes ingest plastic, because it mimics the food they eat. The program reveals scientific research, indicating how plastic pieces can attract and hold hydrophobic elements like PCB and DDT up to one million times background levels. As a result, floating plastic is like a poison pill. As a result, new research regarding endocrine disrupters in floating plastic debris is being planned by the Algalita Marine Research Foundation..

"Synthetic Sea" is a documentary based on scientific findings backed by published scientific papers."     by Dr. Marcus Ericson

Tiny bits of plastic are being ingested inadvertently by micro-organisms at the bottom of the food chain. The danger to humans comes from toxins being passed up the food chain to fish that we eat.

Answer 2

Try this out:  http://www.oregon.gov/LCD/OCMP/Ocean_Int...

Should get you started. I suspect you can find similar governmental programs in each pac. northwest state.