Eliza Dawson, a former UW crew member who majored in atmospheric sciences at UW’s College of the Environment, is part of a four-woman team that will row across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii this June. She and her team hope to break the world record for women rowers — 50 days, 8 hours, 14 minutes — set in 2014.
Dawson is also taking part in the 2,400-mile rowing race from Monterey, California, to Honolulu to spotlight the far-reaching impacts of humankind on the Earth by rowing across parts of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a vast gyre of plastic garbage occupying an area four times the size of California.
“It’s going to be a hard, demanding journey — and that’s what it’s going to take to combat climate change,” Dawson, 22, told The Seattle Times.
See also:
- Eliza’s Row For Climate Tumblr blog
- The Seattle Times: “Former UW Husky to row across Pacific Ocean for environmental awareness“
- The News Tribune: “A patch of trash in the Pacific is three times the size of France. A UW grad will row through it“
- KING 5: “UW grad rowing across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii“
- KIRO Radio: “UW grad will row across ocean in Great Pacific Race“
- Everett Herald: “Ex-UW rower to raise environmental awareness with ocean trek“
- KOMO News: “UW grad rowing 2,400 miles to Hawaii in the name of climate change“
- KOMO News: “Rowing for climate change: A woman’s plan to row across the Pacific Ocean“
- The News Tribune: “A patch of trash in the Pacific is three times the size of France. A UW grad will row through it“
- The Seattle Globalist: “Women’s rowing team pulls attention to massive garbage patch in Pacific“