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Marine Debris Tracker

Ocean cleanup? There’s an app for that! Dr. Jenna Jambeck’s Marine Debris Tracker made it on an Apple executive’s list of apps you can’t live without. Host April Sorrow speaks to Dr. Jambeck, Environmental Engineer and Associate Professor in University of Georgia’s College of Engineering, about why it’s important to track marine debris and the heartwarming time her son said “Mommy, your app is making the world better.”

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