Citizen scientists take on problem of Pacific plastics
Monday, August 11, 2014 - 07:00
in Mathematics & Economics
In the classic 1967 movie, The Graduate, a newly minted college graduate played by Dustin Hoffman is told by an older friend that the future would be guided by "one word: plastics." Although the older man's prediction did not refer to the future of marine ecology, the state of the world's oceans has, ironically, borne it out.