Friday, October 19, 2007

In the geological record a million years from now...

we will be known as the plastic people! (sounds cool....but it is really bad!!) According to Curtis Ebbesmeyer who is an oceanographer studying ocean currents by tracking trash in the ocean....

I saw him on the new PBS show Wired Science....
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/story/22-flotsam_found.html

Here is some more information about him....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Ebbesmeyer
http://beachcombersalert.org/
http://oceanmotion.org/html/research/ebbesmeyer.htm

If I had a science project to do I would do it on him....

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