Chapter 44: The great garbage patch
Abstract
This chapter contains a sequence of exercises that builds up to a cellular automaton simulation of turtles in the ocean, garbage that is deadly to them, and ships that clean it up. To read more about this, see https://theoceancleanup.com/.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
Computational Physics and Python Applications
Turtle Biology and Conservation
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks
- Pages
- 443–447
- Publication date
- 19 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter