Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1. EQ- How can scientists effective reduce the anthropogenic activity dealt to the ocean?
2. "The best way to reduce the amount of pollution we allow into the ocean is monitoring. Without information, what can we improve?" - Andres Carrillo
3. 
   This graph shows the average number of trash items counted for several years along a popular 7-mile stretch of Mustang Island Gulf Beach, Texas. Beverage cans are single drink containers and include plastic bottles; chemical containers are 5-gallon pails and drums of chemicals; green bottles are bleach bottles from Mexico (common on Texas beaches); egg cartons and milk jugs are standard grocery items.
   A lot of medical waste and other floatable debris were constantly coming ashore in New York and New Jersey, so the Medical Waste Tracking Act was passed in 1988.
   If the levels of pollution that enter the ocean are most closely monitored, then we would be able to see when the levels were getting out of hand, and then do something about it.
4. The NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)
5. I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by researching the current measures we're taking to monitor the levels of pollution, and the type of pollutants that are being found more often.