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In the science section of the New York Times November 10th, 2009 you'll find a story from Lindsey Hoshaw on the Pacific Garbage Patch. This story was partly funded by the Spot.Us community and is credited as such. ABOARD THE ALGUITA, 1,000 miles northeast of Hawaii — In this remote patch of the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from any national boundary, the detritus of human life is collecting in a swirling current so large that it defies precise measurement. Light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, Popsicle sticks and tiny pieces of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice, inhabit the Pacific garbage patch, an area of widely dispersed trash that doubles in size every decade and is now believed to be roughly twice the size of Texas. But one research organization estimates that the garbage now actually pervades the Pacific, though most of it is caught in what oceanographers call a gyre like this one — an area of heavy currents and slack winds that keep the trash swirling in a giant whirlpool. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/science/10patch.html?src=tw width=">Read more NY Times: Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash </a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/11/09/science/11102009_Garbage_index.html">Also see the accomanying photo slide show.</a><img src="http://lindseyhoshaw.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/chub-fish.jpg?w=600&h=450" height="450" alt="" width="450" /> This is the culmination of the last four months of work from Lindsey. But it is not exhaustive. For the very interested reader. <ul> <li><a href="http://blog.spot.us/2009/09/17/updates-from-the-pacific-garbage-patch/">Updates from Lindsey while on the trip.</a> (<a href="http://spot.us/pitches/238-dissecting-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/posts">also on the pitch's blog</a>)</li> <li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29792566@N08/sets/72157621742325383/">A Flickr set of Lindsey's photos from the Pacific Garbage Patch.</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.spot.us/2009/11/10/the-pacific-garbage-patch-published">After thoughts from Spot.Us</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.spot.us/2009/08/15/radio-interview-with-the-garbage-girl/">Radio interview with the Garbage Girl</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.spot.us/?s=garbage+patch">All Spot.Us blog posts tagged "Garbage Patch."</a></li> </ul>

<ul> <li><a href="http://www.midwayjourney.com">http://www.midwayjourney.com/</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.projectkaisei.org/">http://www.projectkaisei.org/</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch">Wikipedia Page</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/recycling-design-technology/great-pacific-garbage-patch-research-461109">The Daily Green writes about Lindsey's Voyage.</a></li> <li><a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/new-models-for-environmental-communication/">Dot Earth on Lindsey's Voyage.</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/news/801849-the-tip-playing-havoc-in-the-heart-of-the-sea">Metro UK on Lindsey's Voyage</a></li> </ul>

Mr. Moore found a bottle covered with barnacles and algae, indicating it had been in the water for a long time.

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