51384
Accession Number
39195
Editor
Madden. Odile; Charola, A. Elena; Cullen Cobb, Kim; DePriest, Paula T.; Koestler, Robert J.
Title Of Article Chaper
Midway: A Message from the North Pacific Gyre
Title Of Journal Book
The Age of Plastic: Ingenuity and Responsibility: Proceedings of the 2012 MCI Symposium
Volume
7
Pages
147-153
Collation
7 p. : ills.
Reference Bibliography
Includes bibliographic references
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publisher City
Washington, DC
ISSN
1949-2367 (online); 1949-2359 (print)
Language Of Text
English
Language Of Summary
English
Literature Type
Monograph
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
The author’s interest in photography and ecology serve as a brief introduction to a
project he worked on from 2009 to 2012 in collaboration with artist Chris Jordan: a feature-length
documentary film about the plight of the Laysan albatross on Midway Island. The film, along with a
host of photographs, videos, and blogs produced during the project, was intended to raise awareness
about the problem of the seabird’s ingestion of plastic garbage. Indeed, awareness raising is necessary since the negative effects plastic pollution in the oceans has on marine life have been known for
more than half a century, yet little has been done to mitigate the problem.
project he worked on from 2009 to 2012 in collaboration with artist Chris Jordan: a feature-length
documentary film about the plight of the Laysan albatross on Midway Island. The film, along with a
host of photographs, videos, and blogs produced during the project, was intended to raise awareness
about the problem of the seabird’s ingestion of plastic garbage. Indeed, awareness raising is necessary since the negative effects plastic pollution in the oceans has on marine life have been known for
more than half a century, yet little has been done to mitigate the problem.
Keywords
plastic;gyre;ecology
pub_id
51384