Bryan Bobbitt said BeBot is the first robot of its kind in the world, and he hopes it will make cleaning the beach more efficient.
“When they’re in the ocean, they’re looking for food or holding their breath and diving down to go and get things like jellyfish,” she said.
“We’ve got some fishing line, it gets entangled around their flippers, as well as around their necks,” said Alyssa Hancock, assistant manager of sea turtle rehabilitation at the Marine Science Center, where she has helped her team save the lives of more than 25,000 reptiles.“So, Ghul was one that we actually found plastics in his tract,” she said. “Unfortunately, we do see this a lot with these guys. I don’t know if you can tell, but it’s actually really hard plastics.
Citizen scientists collect water samples at various sites around Volusia County during the first weekend of the month. “I’m going to be collecting a water sample from the kayak launch,” volunteer Ed Loomis said. “We’re going to be looking for the presence of microplastics in the water.”The 79-year-old collected a 1-liter sample of water, filtered it back in the laboratory and analyzed the filter under a microscope.“It’s something that gets in your blood, and you just have to do what you can and do it while you’re still able to do it,” Loomis said.
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