SEA1_Jun22_Header5_MMaglione.jpg: Plastic pieces, typically millimeters in size, are hand-picked and enumerated from a sample collected with a surface plankton net. (SEA/Marilou Maglione)
SEA2_Jun18_Header1_SMoret.jpg: Plastic pieces collected in a surface plankton net tow. Pieces are typically millimeter-sized fragments of once-larger items. (SEA/Skye Moret)
SEA3_plasticsample.tiff: Plastic pieces collected in a surface plankton net tow. Pieces are typically millimeter-sized fragments of once-larger items. (SEA/Giora Proskurowski)
SEA4_Jul11_Image2_SMoret.JPG: Contents of a surface plankton net tow sample collected in the North Atlantic include the brown Sargassum seaweed, white and colored plastic pieces, and a flying fish. (SEA/Skye Moret)
SEA5_Jun21_Header2_SMoret.jpg:This plastic bucket, encrusted with biological growth and drifting with a small school of triggerfish, was caught in a surface plankton net tow in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. (SEA/Skye Moret)
SEA6_Jun21_Header3_DML.jpg: Two triggerfish, drifting with the plastic bucket, were caught in a surface plankton net tow hundreds of miles from their typical range. (SEA/David M. Lawrence)
SEA7_Jun21_Image2_DML.jpg:Forty-seven pieces of plastic debris were found in the stomach of this triggerfish, captured in a surface plankton net tow while traveling with a large plastic bucket in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. (SEA/David M. Lawrence)
SEA8_Jun21_Header4_DML.jpg: Algae and marine invertebrates found a home on the surface of this plastic bucket, caught in a surface plankton net tow in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. (SEA/David M. Lawrence)
SEA9_Jul10_Header1_DML.jpg:A hiking boot floating in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. (SEA/David M. Lawrence)
SEA10_Jul01_Image1_SMoret.jpg: Algae and other invertebrates can be found growing on floating plastic debris. (SEA/Skye Moret)
SEA11_Jul08_Image1_RShor.JPG: The SSV Corwith Cramer with all her sails set. (SEA/Roman Shor)
SEA12_Jun30_Header5_DML.jpg: SEA student Dylan Meyer deploys the surface plankton (neuston) net used to sample microscopic organisms and plastic marine debris. (SEA/David M. Lawrence)
SEA13_Jun12_Header4_LPeate.jpg: Close-up of the surface plankton (neuston) net towing at the sea surface. (SEA/Leslie Peate)
SEA14_birdseye_neustonnet.tiff: Birds-eye view of the surface plankton (neuston) net being towed through the water to collect microscopic organisms and plastic marine debris. (SEA/Giora Proskurowski)