New Marine Debris Report Published

Katie Swanson, Tracy Weatherall, and other colleagues from around the Gulf of Mexico just published a new study in the journal of Marine Pollution Bulletin that looked at accumulation rates of marine debris on Gulf beaches, titled Accumulation and Distribution of marine debris on barrier islands across the northern Gulf of Mexico. " In summary, Texas has coastal debris accumulation rates ten times that of similar coastlines in north central GoM." There are a number of reasons for these accumulation rates.