The class has completed the Marine Plastics PSA video assignment, and they are spectacular. See for yourself.
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Brett Branco
I am a marine scientist in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Brooklyn College. I am an active researcher in the Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center (AREAC) and helped found the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay. My research focuses on human impacts on shallow aquatic ecosystems and I spend a lot of time in the lakes and coastal waters around New York City.
Written by Alec Mateo and posted on his behalf by Prof. Branco: I was browsing Science Magazine’s website recently looking for interesting studies regarding climate change. I stumbled across a study that I found to be immediately fascinating, if not terrifying. This study claimed to have found a statistically significant correlation between levels of violence […]
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This week, our Science Forward students and faculty are performing a home plastic audit to see how we might be contributing to the global marine plastic debris problem. According to the EPA, there were approximately 31 million tons of plastic waste generated in the USA in 2010j. Only 8% of this waste was recovered. For […]
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Today, I went to visit a monitoring site with a colleague from the American Littoral Society. We are looking for marsh vegetation recovery after removing an old dock that had washed up during Hurricane Sandy. While we were there, I couldn’t help but notice the large amount of plastic debris littering the marsh. Here is […]
It’s only appropriate that we started our Science Forward seminar by thinking about the definition and practice of science in a general sense. Here are some of the definitions that you offered: From Julia’s group: “Science is the use of empirical evidence and previous theory to draw conclusions about a certain field of study. To […]
What do you see in this photograph? Do you see the dead bird? All that seems to be left are feathers, bones and bits of plastic. The carcass is lying in a pristine green field without any visual evidence of human activity. Though in a state of decay, the carcass appears to be relatively intact […]
