http://www.algalita.org/about-us/bios/charles.html
Charles J. Moore a resident of Long Beach, California, Captain Charles
Moore grew up in and on the Pacific Ocean. His father was an industrial
chemist. Charles attended
the University of California at San Diego where he studied chemistry
and Spanish.Captain Moore has conducted ocean and coastal sampling for plastic
fragments through more than 40,000 miles of the North Pacific Ocean,
across 22 degrees of latitude and 70 degrees of longitude. His latest
10,000 mile voyage took him and his crew two-thirds of the way to Japan
across the International Dateline. Captain Moore's work has been
highlighted in numerous major media outlets, including ABC’s Night line,
Good Morning America, National Public Radio, Rolling Stone, and The Wall
Street Journal.
In 1997, while returning to southern California after finishing the Los Angeles to Hawaii Transpac sailing race, he and his crew caught sight of trash floating in the North Pacific Gyre,
one of the most remote regions of the ocean. He wrote articles about
the extent of this garbage, and the effects on sea life, which attracted
significant attention in the media.
