Marine Debris Archives

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.

Blog Category: Marine Debris

Marine Debris, Participant Profiles

Inside a debris survey

It’s the wrack zone that’s so difficult to figure out—where it begins, where it ends. “See, there’s a piece,” says Adelia Ritchie, pointing to a short scrap of seagrass, and then another, and another. “You can see there’s sort of a whole band all along here.”

Marine Debris

Sizing up Marine Debris

Hillary leading a marine debris training in Port Townsend, WA In 2013, COASST got its first grant to expand to a whole new data collection protocol – marine debris. Following the tsunami of 2011 that

Marine Debris, Participant Profiles

Participant Profile: Mark Miranda

When a person spends a lot of time searching for things that have washed in with the tide, and those things are often dead, certain metaphors tend to offer themselves up. One that has become