Mary Kate is towing this Nueston Net daily in search of tar balls and plastics floating on the surface of all the worlds' oceans. The fine net mesh allows for the collection of buoyant particulates found in the surface water. The particulates collected range as small as a third of one millimeter in size. Relative quantities of plastics and other human-produced particulate debris along the cruise track is the focus of her Sea-Term Project.
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