Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Charles J. Moore is an internationally recognized expert on marine plastic pollution and is the Research Director at Algalita Marine Research and Education, a nonprofit organization working to prevent ocean plastic pollution through research and education. Moore is known for his work in the Eastern North Pacific Gyre, commonly called the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch', an area of the Pacific Ocean strewn with floating plastic debris, most of it smaller than a grain of rice. In collaboration with researchers at the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, he developed the first protocols for monitoring marine plastic debris which are now used worldwide by oceanographic researchers and citizen scientists. As Algalita’s Research Director, Captain Moore and his team have logged 15 voyages to the Garbage Patch since 1999."@en }
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- Charles_J._Moore abstract "Charles J. Moore is an internationally recognized expert on marine plastic pollution and is the Research Director at Algalita Marine Research and Education, a nonprofit organization working to prevent ocean plastic pollution through research and education. Moore is known for his work in the Eastern North Pacific Gyre, commonly called the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch', an area of the Pacific Ocean strewn with floating plastic debris, most of it smaller than a grain of rice. In collaboration with researchers at the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, he developed the first protocols for monitoring marine plastic debris which are now used worldwide by oceanographic researchers and citizen scientists. As Algalita’s Research Director, Captain Moore and his team have logged 15 voyages to the Garbage Patch since 1999.".