Nir Barnea, West Coast Regional Director for NOAA’s Marine Debris Program, is the scheduled speaker at the regular monthly meeting of the Clallam County Marine Resource Committee, set for 5:45 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 23, at the commissioners’ meeting room at the Clallam County Courthouse.

Barnea will discuss marine debris associated with the March 2011 tsunami in Japan. He will focus on early post-tsunami observations, NOAA’s debris modeling efforts and more recent observations of debris made in the northeast Pacific Ocean.