NH Marine Debris

Join us for our monthly beach cleanup this Saturday at Jenness Beach  in Rye, NH! PLEASE ARRIVE BY 10:30 AM as we will start promptly at that time.  All supplies are provided. During...

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Interesting finds at the cleanup: 3 disks from the Hooksett wastewater treatment plant spill on 3/6/11, a toy mermaid, toy dinosaur and a dime! On Saturday, November 12, 52 volunteers headed...

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At the beach, it's easy to see litter items like bottles, cans and bags. But there are smaller plastics that may go undetected.  We wondered how many of these microplastics were on our beaches...

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> We estimate over 700,000 fibres could be released from an average 6 > kg wash load of acrylic fabric.   >  - Napper, I.E. and R.C. Thompson (2016, In Press).  ...

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> We estimate over 700,000 fibres could be released from an average 6 > kg wash load of acrylic fabric.   >  - Napper, I.E. and R.C. Thompson (2016, In Press).  ...

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Microplastics sampling season is just around the corner but here is a quick recap of what we found out last year.  The 2015 season was highly impacted by weather and a lot of recreational t...

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Trash knows no season. On January 9, volunteers at our monthly cleanup at Jenness Beach picked up 42 pounds of litter. Their trash tallies included 149 pieces of plastic, 10 plastic bottles,...

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Happy New Year! It's been awhile since we've posted... we're going to try to do better in 2016. Wanted to let you know about a couple upcoming events. First is a screening of the movie bag it,...

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The huge "haul" at Peirce Island, Earth Day 2006. Will we find as much this year? Want to celebrate Earth Day and help marine life at the same time?  Join us for an upcoming beach cleanup! ...

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NH Sea Grant and Blue Ocean are gearing up to start microplastics sampling again for 2015.  Because the winter has been so drawn out, we have not been able to get out and get onto the beaches to...

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Race Point Beach on a gray, foggy day Microplastics, bottle caps and straws by the hundreds... this is what we encountered when we arrived at Race Point Beach in Provincetown, MA for our ann...

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For the last several years, we have gone out to the Isles of Shoals and conducted coastal cleanups of the islands.  Often, we came back with many unfishable lobster traps that had gotten lost a...

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White Island from F/V Yesterday's Storm Today, we set off from Rye Harbor at 7 AM intending to go out to White Island, one of the Isles of Shoals. We know that White and its adjoining island...

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Our new recruits! 2 beaches down, several more to go! Finally!! After a very long winter and some panic that the weather would not improve in time for microplastics sampling season, here we ...

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Microplastics sampling at Wallis Sands Beach Want to volunteer outside? Interested in marine conservation and research? Help with our microplastics study!  Blue Ocean Society for Marine Co...

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On Sunday, January 12, I had the pleasure of spending a couple hours at the beach with Sarah Heeley and Meghan Pryor and their families.  Sarah and Meghan have just become our first Adopt-a-Beac...

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Volunteers at a foggy Jenness Beach cleanup - the first of the year! Our first public cleanup of the year showed that cleanups are necessary even in the winter. Luckily, today felt more like...

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Winter is a great time to be at the beach! Happy New Year! This is a long-overdue post to this blog, but I'm happy to say that the New Year has brought new resolve to post more frequently....

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Derelict fishing gear getting ready to be recycled and turned into energy! Photo courtesy of B. Zeiber, NH Sea Grant NHSG/UNHCE Extension Specialist, Dr. Gabby Bradt and NHSG Doyle Fellow...

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(the following was reprinted from Blue Ocean Society's May 2013 Enewsletter ) This week, we're donning our hard hats and heading out to the Isles of Shoals for another cleanup at Appledore Isla...

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26 Volunteers picked up 272 pounds of litter during the National Day of Service cleanup at Foss Beach in Rye, NH This past Saturday (January 19), we cleaned-up Foss Beach in Rye, NH as part ...

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Miami... Can't complain about the conference location, especially in December! Last week, Gabby Bradt from NH Sea Grant and I joined 77 marine debris experts from around the world to look at...

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Last night I was on Facebook looking at the silly and the maddening, the cute kids, brides and the "science-y" posts.  In any case, I ran across two very interesting articles that elicited ...

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Cleanup volunteers at Seabrook's Inner Harbor. Photo courtesy Ron Sher, NextEra Energy Seabrook Station Join us this weekend and participate in the world's largest beach cleanup! Across ...

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Babies R Us or Appledore Island? When we began the Isles of Shoals Cleanup Series this summer- we had no idea what exactly it would entail.  We had a general idea of what was on the islands...

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