The weather had cooled significantly. We were certainly in a different local climate having traveled up the Mississippi River over four days with stops in Vidalia, Louisiana; Natchez, Mississippi; Vicksburg, Mississippi; Jackson, Mississippi; Memphis, Tennessee; and Cairo, Illinois before making it to St. Louis, Missouri, our second pilot city in the Mississippi River Plastic Pollution Initiative (more on the stops in between in subsequent posts). We had learned so much about the history and ...| Jambeck Research Group
Thursday started out with a scoop of trash from the Carlotta Street boom in Baton Rouge.| Jambeck Research Group
The flowers and horse fields at the BREC Farr RV Park and Equestrian CenterThe yellow flowers greeted us as we entered the BREC RV Park/Equestrian Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and saw the horses gracefully grazing in the field. It was a serene place, right across the road from the Mississippi River levee that does it’s best to hold back the high velocity, swelling spring-time river, but it’s not entirely successful – the park manager hinted at this as she told us to “pick our spot...| Jambeck Research Group
Just before leaving on expedition… a family photo with the camper (& saying ‘bye to the dogs)The rumbling sound of the semis was constant. Two feet from us on either side. And trucks driving in and out all night… no one got much sleep. Even though I was very tired from just a few hours of sleep the night before when I was up into the wee hours of the morning charging batteries, setting up SD cards and hard drives, doing laundry and packing everything we might need (but not too much!) fo...| Jambeck Research Group
So, today (and this week!) has been a bit surreal. I had my first-ever paper published in Science, Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean. I had more interviews than I ever knew were possible in a 3-day time span… we also had a press briefing at AAAS – it went great. I thought I would post the transcript of the comments I made at the briefing here. I am so grateful I get to do a job that allows me to work on my passion and I remain hopeful about the future of our oceans.| Jambeck Research Group
Synchronicity. After e-meeting Emily Penn this summer to discuss the Apple video and her work, we thought that we might one day work together… little did we know it would happen so soon! Here I am, resident engineer, an addition to eXXpedition, the all-women’s voyage across the Atlantic to make the unseen seen…| Jambeck Research Group
I am so grateful for what I get to do every day, research and teaching mostly, but also service and outreach too. In honor of the International Coastal Cleanup this weekend, I decided to share the story of how I came to conduct work on marine debris.| Jambeck Research Group
Matthew, an MPA student at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service, contacted me about six weeks ago and asked to do an online interview. Matt is currently studying open government and innovation in a class with Beth Noveck (former head of the White House’s Open Government Initiative). He is using the class as an opportunity to study innovation in the field of environmental policy (which is his particular area of interest). He had an assignment to identify and interview an innovator in his ...| Jambeck Research Group
I recently went to Jekyll Island to meet with my Georgia Sea Turtle Center collaborator and attend the Green Screen event put on by EcoFest Film Fesitval, Georgia Sea Grant, and Jekyll Island.| Jambeck Research Group
I was recently interviewed by Steve Averett of Waste Age Magazine. It was a fun interview, not any questions about my research, but little peeks into my personal world and my opinions. The post was put together well – with a link to the Star Wars Scene I refer to… and I didn’t know the garbage compactor monster had a name! Dianoga. For the full interview see here >>>| Jambeck Research Group