Sunshine Coast Oceans Festival - 2024 NEMO Talks Series - Seafloor Garbage in the Salish Sea
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In this talk, Susan Anthony addresses the issues that come with underwater debris cleanup and discuss potential and actual solutions that can be used in communities surrounding the Salish Sea.
Human-made debris enters the water and disappears below the surface. There it stays, smothering the sediment and its organisms, leeching pollutants, and breaking into smaller and smaller pieces, but never going away. SeaChange and its partners have spent the last decade restoring and conserving nearshore habitats, which includes underwater debris removal. We have navigated regulations and developed effective methods. However, any work underwater is dangerous, time-consuming, and costly. There are legions of dedicated shoreline and underwater clean-up crews, but there are still challenges; like, who’s responsible for the cleanup? Can the debris be claimed by its owner? How do we stop the input of trash into the ocean?
About Susan Anthony:
Susan is a passionate and curious scientist, natural historian, and conservationist. She has a BSc from the University of Victoria in Biology with a minor in Ocean Sciences, studying her last year at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, then straight into an MSc at BMSC through the University of Alberta, studying the ecology of sea slugs. Susan then took a sharp turn research-wise, and studied thermal physiology in Northern arachnids, gaining an understanding of the less visible effects of climate change on ectotherms.
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