When Ruben Laskar Manhattan was four miles on the coast of Ash, the Ash began to rain in the sea – first in soft wax, and then on harmful clouds.
The fisheries exploration ship traveled a few days before the coastal survey. It should be a regular trip, that type California Co -operative Maritime Fisheries Investigations (Calcofby) The project begins four times a year as part of the world's longest -running marine environmental system.

Maritime research in the ocean is noticed from the ship.
(Rasmus Swalethorb/Scribs Institution of Oceanography)
But when the policies and the Eaton fire erupted, scientists on the National Ocean and atmospheric management ship became the first investigators in the scene of a disaster.
Los Angeles breathaded smoke, debris piled up on the streets of debris, and the burnt and toxic remnants of thousands of destroyed houses, businesses, cars and electronics – almost, in the end, come to rest at sea.
There is no precedent for how the urban fire of this level can change countless creatures that rely on food and livelihood.

Scientists on the Ruben Laskar ship wear mirrors and masks to protect themselves from smoking when they notice seas and sea mammals.
(Rasmus Swalethorb/Scribs Institution of Oceanography)
But there is no team to understand how the fire that changed Los Angeles affects life in the sea.
Unlike the smoke emitted from the rural wildfire, the burnt object that is now entering the sea is “people's houses: their cars, batteries, their electronic.” “This is definitely going to have many things that we don't want to see in our oceans – and on our soil, in that case, and our water streams, of course not on our dinner plates.”
Calofi was created in 1949 to study the collapse of the soul industry, in a joint venture of the scripts, NOAA Fisheries and State Fish and Wildlife Officers.
But scientists quickly felt that the question could only be answered by reading the interconnected layers of the widespread marine environment system.
Calcofi started collecting extensive sea samples several times a year from the same 113 places, with a formal phase of spreading the California coast. Millions of models of Blangton, fish eggs and marine animals are protected in its archives, which offer precious snapshots of the sea over time.

Since 1949, scientists and NOAA scientists have formally collected samples from over 100 stations across California.
(Calcofby)
Ruben Laskar continued that regular lawn style through the sea as it was caught in a fire this month. Researchers of the Southwest Fisheries Science Center of the Scripts and NOAA wore mirrors and masks. Wildlife numbers were temporarily suspended when smoke became very thick to create seawater and sea mammals.
Fire debris cloudy the surface of the sea for 100 miles. Once the white collection nets are suit and burnt harmful. When the group dragged samples of ash -filled sea water, Swalethorb retreated in the stench, which was unlike any wildfire he met before.
Swalethorb, who operates Calcofofi's shipping operations, said, “This is not your usual fire smell.” The first thing that came to my mind when I smelled it was immediately away from: This is a smell of burnt electronics. “
A common Calcofi Cruise Collects data on everything from water to local plant and animal species. Decaded data archives of the project are suitable for reading long -term changes in marine environmental systems.
“I don't think there is an exemption for this kind of input in the maritime environment system,” said NOAA Fisheries Director Calcofi Director Nyol Paul's fire. But to measure 76 years of data, “How big is this event?” Can we provide the necessary environment to answer the question? ”

Calcofi researchers have white nets once dark with suit and burnt debris. His first reaction to pulling the nets above, a group member said: “This is the smell of burnt electronics.”
(Rasmus Swalethorb/Scribs Institution of Oceanography)
Samples collected at the beginning of the fire will help the toxic metals, PCPs, PFAs and other chemicals in the sea-more and more environmental scientist Mark Gold told the Natural Resource Protection Council.
“This is the most accidental, and the fact that the Calcofi was actually during the disaster was able to collect such comprehensive models,” Gold said.
The most immediate concerns is the pollution of the sea. Gold noted that running from the first few rainy season, besides Ash offshore's already enormous track. He had conversations with city, district and state officials, and they were trying to control the amount of fire pollution that goes into the sea.
Imagine the Los Angeles County, designed by the footsteps and mountains, a large bowl leaned towards the sea. When it rains, the water roofs and rush on the streets and sidewalk, taking any pesticides, garbage bin Car tire residue And other impurities in its way.
Unlike the region's wastewater, it is filtered by therapeutic facilities before it is discharged, this mixture of rainwater and debris usually flies straight into the sea. The network of storm drains And rivers lined with concrete.

Calcofi researchers carried gray and debris on the surface of the ocean for 100 miles.
(Rasmus Swalethorb/Scribs Institution of Oceanography)
Rain this week is the first significant rainfall in the first region of May. In addition to the ash and chemical residue of the fire, it is the first fluctuation of nine -monthly pollution in the sea.
Local Environment Groups like Heel The Bay Have been stressed Beach visitors to avoid water contact on any beaches from Malibu's Surprider beach to La International Airport.
Los Angeles County has provided the Public Health Department Similar ocean precautions And even Beach shuttersBy Map of closed or contaminated beaches.
Public health officials have warned that even toxic or cancer chemicals in the sand, any fire debris and the beach visitors advise you to avoid any flow in the beach sand or pond. Gold, as an extra precaution, said he would not swim or browse in water for at least two or three weeks after rain.
For a long time, there are strict questions about whether the fire -released contaminants penetrate the food chain.
The ash from the wildfire sometimes increases the growth of the microscopic algae at the base of the seafood net, thanks to the injection of nutrients from burnt plants. A large infusion of ash from the urban fire – with a combination of asbestos, lead, microflasts and heavy metals – no one still knows how our food distribution will affect.

The Calcofi Group collected samples of sea water polluted by fire debris.
(Rasmus Swalethorb/Scribs Institution of Oceanography)
“Does this have an impact on all food web interstits, starting the base of the food chain, phytoplankton and microorganisms, then slowly accumulating … In all the ways we eat?” , People are going to realize the existence [these fish]Or something else from this fire. ”
The latest chapter of LA's catastrophe is only an unrecognized buyer for the dangers of sea debris and land.
A Continuous reports In recent years, the country's largest DDD manufacturer has revealed a ghost history of how it was Once it was poured out its waste In the sea, from the coast of Los Angeles. Further research has found that this part of the ocean also acted as a garbage Military weapons And Radioactive waste.
“For me, the circumstances and extent of these fire shows that the LA area is not flexible,” Gold said. “One of the consequences that the climate should not be flexible … the sea will again become a trash can, whether it is deliberately or not.”