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Microplastics in the Ocean: Emergency or Exaggeration?
The Seafood Dilemma: Does It Matter Where We Get Our Seafood?
Where Land & Sea Meet : Managing Shoreline Change Over the Next 100 Years
Precious Metals from Deep-Sea Vents
Ocean Iron Fertilization
Fire and Ice—Climate Changes of the Past…and Future?
The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Human Pathogens in Lake Pontchartrain
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Lillie Auditorium
7 MBL Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Keynote Presentation
The Science of Ocean Plastic Pollution: Laying the Foundation for Solutions
Dr. Kara Lavender Law
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.
Panel Discussion
International Perspectives on Marine Microplastics Research
moderated by
Dr. Heather Goldstone
, host of Living Lab, WCAI, Cape & Islands NPR
Panelists:
Dr. Chelsea Rochman
, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Hauke Kite-Powell,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, U.S.
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.
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