<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000099'><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Diana Kenney" <dkenney@mbl.edu><br><br><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Hello: Former MBL post-doc Emilia DeForce is chief scientist on this SEA expedition, which departed Oct. 3. Included below are links for following the expedition.<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:
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0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dear MBL community, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">This is an email to let you know
that Sea Education Association’s (SEA) ship the SSV <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Robert C. Seamans</i> will set sail from San Diego on SEA’s second
research expedition dedicated to the study of plastic marine debris, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Plastics at SEA: North Pacific Expedition
2012</b>. The 2500-nautical mile voyage to Honolulu will sail west into
the popularly dubbed, ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’, an area of documented high
concentrations of floating plastic where, according to models and recent
observations, debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami will also be
drifting. Scientific objectives include documenting plastic debris
concentrations and investigating the effects of plastic in the ocean ecosystem.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">We invite you to check out the
expedition on our website <span class="object"><span style="mso-field-code:"HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.sea\.edu\/plastics\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022""><span class="MsoHyperlink">http://www.sea.edu/plastics/</span></span></span>, which
will be updated daily with multimedia content including posts from
award-winning author and journalist Jonathan Waterman. Jon will also be writing
weekly posts for National Geographic that will appear at <span class="object"><span style="mso-field-code:"HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/newswatch\.nationalgeographic\.com\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022""><span class="MsoHyperlink">http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/</span></span></span>
as part of the Society's "Ocean Views" news. We will also have
K-12 outreach where students in ten partner schools from around the country
will submit questions that the expedition team will answer from sea. A
major goal of this expedition is outreach and education to schoolchildren,
educators, and the public.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Please follow along and let
friends, family, and colleagues know about this expedition!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Fair winds,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Kara Lavender Law, Principal
Investigator</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Giora Proskurowski, Principal
Investigator</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Erik Zettler, Principal
Investigator</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Emelia DeForce, Chief Scientist</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Jason Quilter, Captain</span></p>
<br><br>-- <br><div><span></span>Diana Kenney<br>Science Writer/Editor<br>Marine Biological Laboratory<br>7 MBL Street<br>Woods Hole, MA 02543<br>508-289-7139<br>dkenney@mbl.edu<br><a href="http://www.mbl.edu" target="_blank">MBL Homepage</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mblscience" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/mblscience" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="http://blog.mbl.edu/" target="_blank">Blog</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKUBiBDXmMg" target="_blank">Video</a><span></span><br></div></div></div></body></html>