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OPDERA, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about plastic debris in the world's oceans. We sail to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to show you what is there. We provide data, education, and resources to raise awareness of this disaster and mobilize the millions of people needed to correct this course of ocean destruction and begin to repair our oceans. Use our..
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Ocean Weather Expertise Volunteers help us on our voyages to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This can be done as an eye-in-sky constantly making comms with our vessel on the high seas. Ocean Weather Expertise Volunteers also join us on our voyages at times.
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Database Programming Volunteers help maintain our unified research reporting database to ensure data collection volunteers, as well as institution researchers, have access to our operationally secure and effective database structure.
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I founded the nonprofit OPDERA – Ocean Plastic Debris Education Research and Awareness because most people are not aware of the environmental catastrophe happening right before their eyes. I WAS SHOCKED when I first read about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch 15 years ago. My further research into the subject proved inconclusive. Much that was […]
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CNBC’s Katie Brigham and her team kill it in this 15 min. video about plastics. The plastic waste that is flooding the Earth is unprecedented. You must take 15 min. to watch this today! The video clearly and articulately describes the problem we face, how it developed, what is happening now, and how we can […]
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Fundraising Volunteers help us manage our donor relationships, communications, and identify new donors. Help us save the oceans from plastic waste!
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Ocean Biology Expertise Volunteers help on voyages to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and ensure everyone is told the truth about plastic waste. Assist in research and content curation to spread the word about plastic waste in the world's oceans.
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