Week 2, day 3

 Today Sam and I traveled over to WHOI again to meet with a doctor, Dr. Moore. Dr. Moore is not in the field that we are researching, micro plastics, but he still works with apart of our project, pollution. He researches the pollution and how it affects whales, specifically right whales, and how they get affected by lobster and snow crab traps and lines. He had a lot to say about how close right whales are getting to becoming extinct, he expressed serious sadness because he’s been working on this issue for over 30 years and as Dr. Moore puts it “it hasn’t gotten better the way it’s supposed to” the reason he was so down about this is because humans are the ones who are ruining this beautiful animals existence, with not only the brutal cruelty of the traps and lines, but mostly the propellers from ships. These cause most the deaths of whales, and also, starvation, because of climate change and water temperature change. Back to the traps and lines, the reason this pollution is so harmful is because the whales accidentally run through these and then freak and and get super tangled in the mess. Causing them to get extremely tangled and creates and uncomfortable swimming space for the whales, creating muscle deform, making the whale not as strong as it naturally should be. This is just one problem he talked about, he talked a lot about how this problem causes reproduction to be stalled and how sometimes it doesn’t even happen to a lot of whales. Overall we learned a lot about a topic that’s apart of our line of work but at that same time, it isn’t. This helped us widen our knowledge of ocean pollution, good last meeting to have this project period. 

The only picture i got from the meeting. - 



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