Miscellaneous Stuff

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

-Jawaharlal Nehru

Marine Debris Tracker for IOS & Android

Marine Debris Tracker is available now for iPhone, iPad and Android devices!

The Mobile App Marine Debris Tracker is a joint partnership of the NOAA Marine Debris Division and the Southeast Atlantic Marine Debris Initiative (SEA-MDI), located within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Georgia. A primary goal of SEA-MDI is to use innovative technologies and unique expertise to add culturally relevant outreach tools and information to the current NOAA Marine Debris Division. Marine Debris Tracker is the first product of this initiative. It is our hope that it will spread awareness of marine debris, as well as serve as an easy to use and simple tool for marine debris data collection.

When paddling along the coast this is a great app to help NOAA track and document marine debris on the coast lines.

To see a map of already logged debris visit the Marine Debris Tracker Website.

Options for tracking your paddles

I get a lot of questions about what options people have to track their paddles. For starters, there is the old tried and true, paper journal and pencil which works for people who have not embraced the computer age. The simple answer is that there are no off the shelf programs designed to track our paddle advetures. I have however over the years come up a few solutions and have landed on one that works quite well for me.

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Japans Tsunami Debris Just Off The Coast

Debris from the tsunami that devastated Japan could reach the United States as early as this winter, according to predictions by NOAA scientists. However, there is still a large amount of uncertainty over exactly what is still floating, where it's located, where it will go, and when it will arrive. Visit NOAA's Marine Debris 101 site for more info.

tsunamidebris1. Tsunami Debris FAQs 
2. Downloadable one-pager
(pdf 227kb) 
3. Making Waves podcast

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