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Great Pacific Garbage Patch: An abundance of life

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May 6, 2023

Here’s an amazing thread on Twitter by biologist Rebecca Helm of Helm Lab at Earth Commons Institute, Georgetown University. She is a jellyfish expert, who generally studies life on the high seas. The tweet – from May 5, 2023 – is about the abundance of life in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Be sure to read the full conversation on Twitter.

OMG it literally took someone SWIMMING FROM HAWAII TO CALIFORNIA to discover this, but wow did we find something shocking in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch… [a thread ?]…
New study: https://t.co/kcbKyYJbXv pic.twitter.com/1hVL0YFbDp

— Rebecca R Helm (@RebeccaRHelm) May 5, 2023

Bottom line: Be sure to click in, to read the full conversation on Twitter, in this amazing thread from a scientist who studies life on the high seas. It’s about the abundance of life in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Shoutout to Shireen Gonzaga for alerting us to this fascinating thread.

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Deborah Byrd created the EarthSky radio series in 1991 and founded EarthSky.org in 1994. Prior to that, she had worked for the University of Texas McDonald Observatory since 1976, and created and produced their Star Date radio series. Today, she serves as Editor-in-Chief of this website. She has won a galaxy of awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named 3505 Byrd in her honor. In 2020, she won the Education Prize from the American Astronomical Society, the largest organization of professional astronomers in North America. A science communicator and educator since 1976, Byrd believes in science as a force for good in the world and a vital tool for the 21st century. "Being an EarthSky editor is like hosting a big global party for cool nature-lovers," she says.