The rain eased Saturday as Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins biked into Marine Stadium Park in Long Beach, part of a journey to raise awareness of an ecological nightmare brewing far out to sea. Their stopover was the main event of an International Surfing Day celebration.
LONG BEACH - A dead sea turtle wrapped in a plastic lawn chair. An albatross stomach bulging with toothbrushes and bottle caps. A small fish with 84 plastic fragments in its body. These are just a few things environmentalists Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins have found on trips through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling soup of plastic debris in the North Pacific Gyre between Japan and California.
HONOLULU - Tanned, dirty and hungry, two men who spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean debris finally stepped onto dry land. We made it," hollered Marcus Eriksen to a crowd of about two dozen gathered at Ala Wai Harbor on Wednesday. "Where's the food?
LONG BEACH - Talk about recycling. Marcus Eriksen - along with others concerned about the dire damage from debris polluting the oceans - wants to demonstrate the issue by sailing to Hawaii on a raft of plastic bottles, with a cabin crafted from the fuselage of a gutted two-seater Cessna.
LONG BEACH - A voyage of 2,600 miles to raise awareness of ocean debris aboard a raft made of trash earned Marcus Eriksen a spot on Smooth's Sports Grille's new community "Hall of Legends" on Tuesday. More than a dozen people showed up to congratulate Eriksen, a research and education director, as he received the honorary photo plaque from Smooth's owner John Morris for his brave journey at sea during the months of June and August.
LONG BEACH - An ecology-themed, 2,000-mile bike ride makes a pit stop here today at Marine Stadium at the 1,700-mile mark. The leaders, Dr. Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins, are stopping in Long Beach along with more than a hundred other cyclists on their bike ride from Vancouver, B.C., to Tijuana, Mexico.
...The project will be supervised by Dr. Marcus Eriksen, director of education and research for th...
University by the Sea - the arts and culture festival that energized Downtown Long Beach last fall - is starting the celebration early this year with the induction of Marcus Eriksen and his junk-raft crew into the Long Beach Legends at Smooth's Sports Grille on Tuesday. Starting at 6 p.m. on the roof of the restaurant at 144 Pine Ave., environmental groups like the Long Beach Chapter of Surfrider Foundation and Friends of the L.A. River (FOLAR) will partner with University by the Sea to discuss the L.A. River, Long Beach Breakwater and other water-quality and sustainability issues showcased at this year's Oct. 5 festival.
Steppenwolf Theatre presents "The Brother/Sister Plays: In the Red and Brown Water, The Brothers Size and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet" by Tarell Alvin McCraney - Directed by Tina Landau -January 21 - May 23 at Steppenwolf's Upstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St. Press nigbl is Saturday, January 30 at 3 p.m. ("In the Red and Brown Water) and 7:30 p.m. Black Ensemble Theater opens its 2010 Five play season with the world premiere of "My Brothers Keeper" (The Story of the Nicholas Brothers) at the Black Ensemble Theater, 4520 N. Beacon with previews March 6, 7, 13,14, 19, and 20. Opening is Sunday, March 21 at 3 p.m. "My Brothers Keeper" continues with an open run that was written by Rueben Echóles and is directed and produced by [Jackie Taylor]. Writers' Theatres' Theatre Artistic Direc...
... the Wildere, Lost Bayou Ramblers and Tim Eriksen. Friday at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 8 p.m. Lloyd Col...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Researchers are warning of a new blight on the ocean: a swirl of confetti-like plastic debris stretching over thousands of square miles in a remote expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. The floating garbage - hard to spot from the surface and spun together by a vortex of currents - was documented by two groups of scientists who trawled the sea between scenic Bermuda and Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores islands.
...Cummins and her husband, Marcus Eriksen, of Santa Monica, California, sailed acros...
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