The Best of Marine Debris
It has been more than a decade since COASST first received a grant from the National Science Foundation to design our marine debris data module. With the closure of active data collection for that module
Photo: Hillary Burgess
Blog: Marine Debris
COASSTers are always up to something! Find stories about our participants, updates about beached bird or marine debris research, and read about the latest activities of the COASST office staff and interns.
ONE Apus container spill
Japan‐flagged container ship Apus was sailing from China to California when it encountered severe weather several hundred miles northwest of Midway, HI. 1,816 marine containers were lost overboard.
Containers on the beach
A COASST "container" is an item with rigid walls that can was designed with the intention to contain something (solid, liquid, or gas).