Author Archives: Victoria Sloan Jordan

Plastic Water

By Victoria Sloan Jordan | Published: October 4, 2009
Scientists say that plastic now outweighs plankton 6 to 1 in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The lagoon of Midway Atoll is the perfect laboratory to witness all sizes of plastic slowly breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces.  A variety of plastic washes up on the beaches daily, but not [...]
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From here forward…

By Victoria Sloan Jordan | Published: September 22, 2009
I’m confused by the abundant life and abundant plastic pollution here.  It’s easy to slip into a fantasy that a sort of balance has been achieved on Midway Atoll.  Birds nesting amidst plastic cigarette lighters, bottle caps, toys, umpteen bits and pieces of plastic; turtles pulling up on the beach to rest among plastic buoys [...]
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Message in the Body

By Victoria Sloan Jordan | Published: September 13, 2009
It’s the end of Day 3 for us on Pihemanu (Midway Atoll) in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Pihemanu – “the loud din of birds” in Hawaiian – is relatively quiet now that the nearly 800,000 albatross are out to sea for the next few months.  Other seabirds are easier to notice now.  Terns, petrels, [...]
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