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    • Tara Mediterranean Expedition in 2014

    Metadata Updated: September 18, 2025

    Over the past decades, the proliferation of plastics has rapidly become a global problem affecting all oceans. With 80% of plastics in the sea originating from land, this pollution highlights the interactions between our daily lives and the ocean, and reinforces the need for a transition to an economy that is more respectful of the planet. During the Tara Mediterranean expedition in 2014, the schooner crisscrossed the Mare nostrum to study the interaction of plastics with plankton, and biodiversity in general. First edifying observation: of the 2000 samples taken during the expedition from 350 different sites, all contained plastic fragments.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date April 9, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 9, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/OB.DAAC;NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/SeaBASS
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/SeaBASS/TARA_MEDITERRANEAN/DATA001
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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    Harvest Object Id b5e62536-2bfe-49f9-9459-afcd3d1806e5
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://seabass.gsfc.nasa.gov/experiment/Tara_Mediterranean/
    Old Spatial {"EastBoundingCoordinate":180.0,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":90.0,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-90.0,"WestBoundingCoordinate":-180.0},"CARTESIAN"
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 2f45d5cde99dec90950764cc53e29ccb946b56913de5bf3aa335bd094bf7e2ea
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2014-06-26/2014-06-26

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