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Dear Friend,
This issue of COAST4U Quarterly is dedicated to the kids who participate in our educational programs and who regularly amaze and inspire us - please take a look at their incredible artwork and poetry, and the aerial art created by students encouraging us all to "defend the seas."
I hope you will take this message to heart, as the sea needs our help more than ever. Read the latest on the Tsunami debris situation, below, and stay tuned for how to help with this cleanup effort. Also, mark your calendar for California Coastal Cleanup Day on September 15, 9 to noon, at hundreds of locations around the state.
Coast wishes,
Christiane Parry
Public Education Manager
www.coast4u.org
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Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris:
What We Know and What We're Doing
By Eben Schwartz, Marine Debris Program Manager
California Coastal Commission
The last reliable study I know of on the amount of debris entering our oceans every year was completed by the National Academy of Sciences in 1975. Back then, they estimated that 6.4 million metric tons (about 14 billion pounds) of debris entered the oceans every year. But, as NOAA points out,
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Image credit NOAA/NGDC, Patrick Fuller, IFRC
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that only accounted for debris entering the oceans from maritime sources - it didn't account for debris entering the ocean from land-based sources, which we now know accounts for as much as 80% of all the debris entering the ocean from California.
I think about this number often of late as I contemplate the amount of debris that is potentially floating across the Pacific as a result of last year's earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan...
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8,500 Defend the Sea at Kids' Ocean Day
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In Fresno, hundreds of students at Tioga Middle School spent two weeks learning to research and write essays about ocean conservation, and the winners earned a trip all the way to Monterey to attend the 19th Annual Kids' Ocean Day Adopt-A-Beach Cleanup. In Los Angeles, approximately 600 kids out of 5,000 who descended on Dockweiler State Beach for their cleanup event had never visited the ocean before. In Humboldt County,
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Fresno students visit Monterey
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1,000 elementary students pulled out non-native grasses from sand dunes in addition to picking up litter at their cleanup event. These groups were part of a total of 8,500 children statewide- they also came from San Diego, inland Orange County, and the San Francisco Bay Area- who were able to learn about the ocean and pollution prevention in school, and then take positive action by cleaning and enjoying the beach for Kids' Ocean Day in early June. And when the beaches were clean, they stood in formation to create huge human aerial messages photographed from the sky. See all the artwork at www.oceanday.net.
Thank you to Whale Tail License Plate owners for making the school instruction, event arrangements, and busing to the beach possible!
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Quiz: Destination Series
Brilliant garnet sand on two nearby beaches provides evidence that this river once emptied into the Pacific four miles south of where it does now.
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Name our destination:
A. Navarro River
B. Big Sur River
C. San Gabriel River
D. Otay River
Discover the answer...
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Quiz: What's the Meaning of This?
You may h ave seen this important sign along our coast. What does it mean?
A. Big Foot Crossing
B. Tsunami Inundation Zone
C. Coastal Access
D. No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service
Click here to find out
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Coastal Art & Poetry
The 2012 Coastal Art & Poetry Contest drew 2,340 entries from kindergarten through 12th grade students from throughout California. View all the fantastic art and poetry on our website and visit them in person at a location near you soon!
Learn how to enter next year's contest and where to visit the 2012 exhibit on our website.
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Fly Over San Francisco on Kids' Ocean Day!
Coastal Commission staff member Luna Taylor had the exciting experience of riding in a helicopter over the San Francisco Kid's Ocean Day event on May 17th. She captured her experience on video in order to share it with you. Check it out!
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Whale Tail $$ at Work
The Whale Tail® License Plate, sponsored by the California Coastal Commission, gives drivers a way to help protect and restore the priceless resources of California's coast and ocean. It funds many important programs, including the ones described in this newsletter.
We are offering monthly drawings for fabulous prizes - no purchase is necessary to enter. Just visit www.ecoplates.com
Support your coast & ocean.
Buy a Whale Tail License Plate today!
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About Us
The Public Education Program protects and restores California's coast and ocean by teaching, inspiring, and empowering the public to take environmentally positive action. The Program serves people of all ages and strives to be inclusive by targeting underserved communities and groups.
For information on all of our Public Education Programs, click here, or contact us at
California Coastal Commission
45 Fremont St, Suite 2000
San Francisco, CA 94105
(800) COAST-4U
coast4u@coastal.ca.gov
 
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Save $5 |
Save $5 on the purchase of the 2009 Coastal Cleanup Day anniversary t-shirt (originally priced at $15). This ring-spun (think soft) slim-fit shirt is made of 100% cotton and is pre-shrunk. To see the sizes we have available, please click here. To place your order, download the order form and mail a check, along with this coupon to
California Coastal Commission Public Education Program 45 Fremont St, Suite 2000 San Francisco, CA 94105
Please make checks payable to "CSPF/Adopt-A-Beach" | | Offer Expires: 12/31/2012 or while supplies last |
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