Alameda County Water District Asbestos Cement Pipe Assessment

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Ocean Monitoring San Diego Maritime Week
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Consider

• We use 85,000,000 plastic bottles every 3 minutes
• We use Permanent material for disposable products
  50 of all plastics made
• Over 260m tons per year
• Roughly 90 never gets recycled

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Mission Restore the Worlds Ocean

• Challenge
• Humanitys growing problem of marine debris
• 60 years of neglect
• Need
• Understand, evaluate, inspire, prevent
• Focus
• Convergence zonesbeginning with the North
  Pacific Gyreexpanding to other parts of the
  ocean over time.

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Voyage Tracker
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Programs

• Ocean Research Expeditions
• Annual scientific expeditions to perform
  research at sea on the pattern and impact of
  marine debris
• Break Through Analysis
• Our scientists analyze this new data in our
  network of collaborating laboratories globally
• Innovation Development
• We identify, test and promote new ways to
  retrieve and convert marine debris as well as
  prevent and reduce waste
• Accelerating Change
• We apply our discoveries in programs to change
  consumer behavior, improve industry practices,
  and craft public policy

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History

• Unvisited area little knowledge
• Science exploration, new data,
• new questions.
• Awareness brings innovation

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Opportunities

• Global Ocean Recovery System
• Visual Intelligence satellite, scanners,
  detectors..
• Communal Science Interactivity
• Real time, with a story

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