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On March 11, 2004, a team of scientists led by Dr. William F. Gilly
from Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey, California, embarked upon
a 73-foot fishing boat to retrace the historic expedition that
John Steinbeck and Edward F. "Doc" Ricketts made to explore
the Sea of Cortez in 1940. Their journey was immortalized in a
book they wrote together, The Log
from the Sea of Cortez, still a popular and accessible paperback.
Jon Christensen, a science writer and Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose
State University, travelled with the current expedition and posted
a daily log of the journey online. At various sites along the way,
students and teachers in Baja California joined the expedition
for a day of studying life in the tide pools.
Teachers and students everywhere are invited to explore the connections
between science, literature, history, the environment, conservation,
and our oceans through resources and links below.
English: www.SeaOfCortez.org
Español: www.MardeCortes.org
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Voyage of the Odyssey: Sailing
on a Sea of Plastic
California Coast & Ocean: The
Ocean's Plastic Plague
Wikipedia: Great
Pacific Garbage Patch
Blue Ocean Society: Plastics
in the Marine Environment
Greenpeace: The
Trash Vortex
The Sea of Cortez Expedition
and Education Project is sponsored by the Hopkins Marine Station of
Stanford University, the San Diego Natural History Museum's binational
education program PROBEA (Proyecto Bio-regional de Educación Ambiental),
the Steinbeck Fellows Program and the Martha Heasley Cox Center for
Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University, the California Center
for Ocean Science Education Excellence, the International Community
Foundation, the Ocean Foundation, and The Nature Conservancy.
