On July 11 our Navigator team met with some crew members of the Rozalia project. The Rozalia project was founded by Rachel Miller to make a clean, healthy and thriving ocean. Rachel Miller also was assigned to be our mentor by National Geographic. Our Navigator team met with the Rozalia crew in the Brooklyn, New York Marina on their boat, called the American Promise. There they showed us how to collect Microplastic samples from the surface of the water, the middle of the water, and the from depths of the sea. We had a great time together and learned a lot from the Rozalia crew.
Rachel Miller, the Captain of the American Promise boat, a co-founder of the Rozalia Project, and a National Geographic Explorer, meeting with the Team Navigators
Rachel Miller is showing us the special water container that is designed to dive and collect water samples from 5-10 meters deep under the boat.
A Rozalia scientist crew member is showing a Microplastic funnel filter device which separates the water from the Microplastics through a vacuum
Collecting water samples from the surface of the water
Rachel Miller showing the special deep sea water collector diving machine. It collects water samples, and trash debrees from the bottom of a river or deep in the ocean.
These glass containers are marked and organized. They contain water samples from different location of the Hudson River in NY
