Technologies for Observing and Monitoring Plastics in the Oceans


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Workshop Impressions



Claude Garcia explains the S-E-N-triangle (People and their strategies - Ecosystems and their processes - Norms and institutions) to the workshop participants. See his presentation for more details.

The versatility of the whiteboard, which allowed drawings with the fingertips, was discovered and used to discuss the spectrum of possible and desired futures (in red).

Participants during the scoping session (Session 5) on Tuesday.

Participants during the scoping session (Session 5) on Tuesday.

Participants indicated where they saw their main work focus (red dots on the right white board), with most participants ending up in the system-description part, while a few placed themselves also into the "bottleneck" part and the "alternative Trajectory" part. For the underlying diagram, see slide 5 in this presentation. On the left, Sergio Martinez adding ideas to the road map.

Rene Garello presenting slides provided by Francoise Galgani, see the presentation.

The Tuesday afternoon Session 6 was very productive with the whiteboard filled with thoughts on the road map and the white paper many times.

Participants collectin 6-months, 2-years and 5-years goals for the road map.

Participants committing to take a lead on some of the 6-months goals.

The Challenge of Plastics


The number of countries banning parts of, or all of the single-use plastics is growing.

The hashtag #lineinthesand provides several cartoons illustrating the plastics challenge and options to address this challenge.

From #lineinthesand.

From The Week in Plastics published by The Guardian.

From The Week in Plastics published by The Guardian.

See more pictures of plastics pollution here ...


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