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Married Gerry Burns; children: three children. Education: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, B. Home— MA. Drawing on her lifelong love of both science and the men and women who have made it their career, Loree Griffin Burns wrote Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Motion to introduce young readers to an unusual scientist.

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An oceanographer, Dr. Curt Ebbesmeyer studies the path that lost or discarded manmade items take after falling into the world's waterways. Ebbesmeyer's study of this flotsam—which encompasses such amazing things as sneakers and LEGO pieces and the thousands of rubber ducks that were swept overboard and left to float from the Pacific all the way through the Arctic and into the Atlantic Ocean —joins several others in generating the data that has helped marine biologists safeguard fragile habitats and protect seagoing creatures from the threats posed by unnatural objects.

Burns illustrates Tracking Trash with numerous photographs that help bring to life Ebbesmeyer's work and also inspire interest in young readers. In his review of Tracking Trash for the New York Times Book Review, Hank Green wrote that Burns' book features "scientists doing science," but with "a bit of detective novel thrown in as well. Burns grounds her text with what Horn Book critic Betty Carter described as "solid scientific explanations" which include terms such as "charting, latitude and longitude, currents, waves, tides, and gyres.

Honeybees, beetles, moths—Loree Griffin Burns writes about many different insects, but one she hasn't covered yet?

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