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...academic institutions that were already doing the right kind of work and inviting them to join the new group. They went to Pasadena, where the California Institute of Technology operated its little-known Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and extended an invitation there. They made the same offer up the coast at Moffett Field, Calif., where the military operated its Ames Research Center, and also gathered up the government's missile test range at Cape Canaveral, Fla. and the Huntsville Arsenal in Alabama...
...harbor or shoreline in the country, and you'll find derelict and abandoned vessels," says Doug Helton, acting director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Marine Debris Program. NOAA data suggest there are at least 10,000 abandoned ships and obstructions peppering the U.S. coast, but experts predict there are far more. Helton says 3,000 to 4,000 abandoned vessels were scattered around the coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 alone...
...often continue to "ghost fish" after the ship itself has been abandoned. The biggest man-made threat to the endangered monk seal of Hawaii is entanglement in derelict fishing gear, according to Keith Criddle, a marine-policy professor at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Off North Carolina's coast, ghost crab pots continue to trap and kill diamondback terrapin turtles. In a 2004 report titled An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century, the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy found that at least 267 different species were affected by derelict fishing gear, including 86% of all species of sea turtles...
...September, Criddle authored a National Resource Council report, mandated by Congress and funded by the Coast Guard, that recommended that America reduce all marine debris - man-made substances and litter, not just from ships - to zero. Under the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, signed by 128 countries, vessels are currently allowed to discharge certain pollutants, like food and operational wastes, as long as ships are away from the coastline and other specially protected areas, such as the Mediterranean and Baltic seas. But Criddle's report warns that despite all regulations, there is still a significant amount...
...will be Watson’s second. Last year, she finished third in New England and went on to place ninth in Nationals. Annie Haeger of Boston College won the regatta, placing first in nine of the 14 races to defeat second place Krystal Rohde of the Coast Guard Academy by 31 points.HOOD TROPHY Some members of the co-ed team were able to race in the Hood Trophy at Tufts, but, as was the case at Boston University, the weather was not a friend to the Crimson. Harvard finished ninth overall in the regatta, placing tenth...