{"id":133,"date":"2009-04-10T13:03:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T20:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seagrant.oregonstate.edu\/blogs\/bw\/?p=133"},"modified":"2009-04-10T13:03:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T20:03:59","slug":"ocean-of-junk-presentation-at-hmsc-april-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/2009\/04\/10\/ocean-of-junk-presentation-at-hmsc-april-27\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ocean of Junk&#8221; presentation at HMSC April 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWPORT, Ore. \u2013 Parts of the Pacific Ocean are beginning to resemble a landfill and the increasing accumulation of debris \u2013 mainly plastic \u2013 is the focus of a special presentation on Monday, April 27, at Oregon State University\u2019s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport.<\/p>\n<p>Two environmental activists from the Algalita Marine Research Foundation in California will visit the center as part of their 2,000-mile bicycle tour from British Columbia to Mexico to raise awareness about what some are calling the \u201cNorth Pacific Garbage Patch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/dept\/ncs\/newsarch\/2009\/Apr09\/oceanjunk.html\">Read more &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWPORT, Ore. \u2013 Parts of the Pacific Ocean are beginning to resemble a landfill and the increasing accumulation of debris \u2013 mainly plastic \u2013 is the focus of a special presentation on Monday, April 27, at Oregon State University\u2019s Hatfield &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/2009\/04\/10\/ocean-of-junk-presentation-at-hmsc-april-27\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1223972,1223974,511,1223975],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-hmsc-visitor-center","category-lectures","category-marine-debris"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p64BdL-29","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}