MSI Public Lecture Series

From the time in 1965 when he first saw floating trash in the middle of the Indian Ocean until just the other day when he made his umpteenth count of stuff on the local beach, Tony Amos has been studying the flotsam and jetsam (unfortunately much of it man-made refuse) of the oceans and beaches.  He has conducted 3,900 surveys of Mustang Island and 440 surveys on remote San Jose Island over the past 30 years, from counting tens of thousands of trash items, and seeing some extraordinary things wash ashore from a space rocket nose cone to messages in bottles.  There's good news and bad news and he will tell you about both.

Tony Amos is a Research Fellow at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute.  Mr. Amos is a Physical Oceanographer with a career spanning 36 years with research expeditions to all the world's oceans and many of its seas, including 35 cruises to the Antarctic and five to the Arctic.  To learn more about his work go to:  http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/people/staff/amos/