Microplastics in the Ocean: Emergency or Exaggeration (event recording)

October 15, 2019 – Watch this recorded public event entitled Microplastics in the Ocean: Emergency of Exaggeration? with a keynote presentation by Dr. Kara Lavender Law on the science of ocean plastic pollution and laying the foundation for solutions.

Dr. Law is a faculty member at Sea Education Association, where she studies the distribution of plastic marine debris driven by ocean physics and the degradation and ultimate fate of plastics in the ocean.

Keynote presentation is followed by a panel discussion on the international perspectives on marine microplastics research moderated by Dr. Heather Goldstone, host of Living Lab, WCAI, Cape & Islands NPR. Panelists include:

Dr. Chelsea Rochman
University of Toronto, Canada

Dr. Hauke Kite-Powell
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, U.S.A.

Dr. Gunnar Gerdts
Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany

Dr. Hideshige Takada
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

Dr. Collin Ward
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, U.S.A.

Sponsored by the Elisabeth W. and Henry A. Morss, Jr., Colloquia Endowed Fund

Learn more about marine microplastics here:

Marine Microplastics