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Pollution in the Conceptual Framework

The conceptual framework and Ecosystems. Click here to open this image in a new page or right click to download.

Illustration created with support of ESA graphic service, BY-SA-4.0

Credit: IOC-UNESCO, Methodology for the Assessment of the Open Ocean (2011)

Here is the list of datasets related to the pollution:
  • Eastern Pacific Ocean Surface Plastic Debris from the Sea Eduction Association and Scripps Institution of Oceanography
  • Global Ocean Surface Debris from the transect of the Malaspina Circumnavigation Expedition 2010
  • Western North Atlantic Ocean surface plastic debris (Sea Education Association)
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