AMDI Citizen Science Reveals Local Origins of Marine Debris in NSW
Citizen science reveals local origins of marine debris in NSW Photo credit: AMDI Partners, Woebegone Marine Debris Crew and Woebegone Freedive at their local clean-up. For over 20 years, everyday people, businesses and organisations have been participating in beach clean-ups and contributing data to the Australian Marine Debris Initiative (AMDI) Database. Researchers at UNSW have now used this data to inform oceanographic models that tracked plastic along the NSW coastline back to their most likely source. New research published in
7 February 2025