#microplastinar_2
TITLE
Plastic pollution – A waste problem?
Speaker
Kara Lavender Law
In this interactive online seminar series, we take a closer look at the wicked problem of plastic pollution and microplastics. Our speakers are experts in plastic pollution and have diverse backgrounds in academia, policy making, civil society and beyond. They provide unique perspectives on the causes and impacts of the problem and discuss solutions.
About the speaker:
Kara Lavender Law is a Research Professor of Oceanography at the Sea Education Association
(SEA) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. As a physical oceanographer, she investigates the distribution, behavior and fate of plastic debris in the ocean. Kara has sailed the eastern North Pacific and western North Atlantic Oceans where plastics accumulate in the infamous “garbage patches”. She is co-author of a landmark study modelling the fate of all plastics ever made by humanity.