Plastics at SEA: The science of ocean "garbage patches" at next Monday’s ENVS Seminar

11/06/14

Dr. Kara Lavender Law is a research professor at Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, MA. She has logged more than 12 months of sea time on oceanographic and sailing research vessels, where she has studied large-scale and mesoscale ocean circulation, the role intermediate and deep water formation in the North Atlantic plays in meridional overturning circulation, and – more recently – the distribution and behavior of plastic marine debris, the subject of her presentation at Monday’s ENVS Seminar.

Formerly on the teaching faculty at SEA, Dr. Law has taught oceanography to more than 200 students in 10 SEA Semester classes onshore in Woods Hole, at sea in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and in the Caribbean Sea.  Since 2007 Dr. Law has been researching plastic marine debris using SEA's 25-year data set consisting of plastic counts from nearly 10,000 plankton net tows that were carried out by more than 7000 SEA students and scientists. Her interests include understanding how ocean physics determines the distribution of plastic and other marine debris, and the degradation and ultimate fate of different plastic materials in the ocean environment. Dr. Law holds a PhD in physical oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and a BS in mathematics from Duke University.

Please join us in CNS 112 next Monday at 4 PM for her presentation. To note, Dr. Law will be presenting remotely, as she is currently at sea. 

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