Ocean Plastic and Trash Resources
Ocean Current Visualizations
- What Causes Ocean Currents? A story map. an ArcGIS story map, esri
- How Ocean Currents Impact the World. A story map. an ArcGIS story map, esri
- earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions, from Earth.nullschool.net
- How to use Earth.nullschool.net, an ArcGIS story map, esri
- PlasticAdrift, Showing where plastic ends up, Imperial College London, Utrecht University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science
- Perpetual Ocean, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Animation of virtual particles in the global oceans (an installable software package), Ocean Parcels Project
River Contributions to Ocean Plastic
Resources Determining Sources of Ocean Plastic
- Breaking the Plastic Wave: Top Findings for Preventing Plastic Pollution, The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2020
- Future scenarios of global plastic waste generation and disposal, Lebreton, L., Andrady, A., Palgrave Commun 5, 6, 2019
- Widely-cited study did not show 95% of plastic in oceans comes from just 10 rivers, Agence France Presse (AFP), 2019
- 90% of plastic polluting our oceans comes from just 10 rivers, World Economic Forum, 2018
- Preventing Ocean Plastics, The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2017
- Export of Plastic Debris by Rivers into the Sea, Christian Schmidt et al, Environmental Science & Technology, 2017
- Stemming the Tide: Land-based strategies for a plastic - free ocean, Ocean Conservancy and McKinsey Center for Business and Environment, 2017
- River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans, Laurent C.M. Lebreton, Joost van der Zwet, Jan-Willem Damsteeg, Boyan Slat, Anthony Andrady & Julia Reisser, 2017
- Origin, dynamics and evolution of ocean garbage patches from observed surface drifters, Erik van Sebille et al, Environmental Research Letters, 2012
Other Resources
