Science Forward

The study of marine plastics has a cyclic theme as cyclic debates focus on cleaning up plastic, spinning and gathering at two polar ends of an ocean current. To date, the majority of those debates, especially among government officials, have not led to the implementation of a solution to the pressing marine problem. However, the […]

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 […]