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Matthew Savoca

Matthew Savoca

Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Davis

Plastic pollution on a beach on Lanai

Plastic Pollution In the Ocean Is a Global Problem and the US Is the Top Source

6 min read Dec 5, 2021

Harbor seal looking at golf balls

Here’s How a Teen Scientist Helped Me Discover Tons of Golf Balls Polluting the Ocean

5 min read Jan 19, 2019

Schooling Northern anchovies. Image: Matthew Savoca, CC BY-ND

Anchovies Are Eating Plastic Because It Smells Like Prey

6 min read Oct 16, 2017

Many tube-nosed seabirds, like this Tristram’s storm petrel (Oceanodroma tristrami), eat plastic particles at sea because they mistake them for food. Sarah Youngren, Hawaii Pacific University/USFWS, Author provided

The Oceans Are Full of Plastic and Seabirds Are Dying From It

6 min read Nov 12, 2016