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Science Hall Colloquium - Ben Davidson

Guest Speaker: Ben Davidson
Title:"Beached Plastic: The Transport and Fate of Plastic Pollution"
"The global use of plastics is continually increasing, with similar increasing trends of total plastic waste generation and of plastic pollution to the environment. The accumulation of plastic pollution in the environment is a topical concern often focused on in environmental advocacy, while the impacts of microplastic pollution have received more recent attention. Lakes and oceans collect plastic pollution while dynamic processes transport plastics throughout the aquatic environment. Plastics often end up on beaches where they are more readily broken down by breaking waves and UV radiation, possibly returning to the water or becoming buried in the sand. These processes are driven by the complex beach flows from breaking waves. To fully understand the fate of aquatic plastic pollution, we explore the accumulation of plastic debris on beaches through fieldwork in the Great Lakes, experiments in laboratory wave tanks, and computational modeling."

Location:	Thomas Steitz Hall of Science 102 - Lecture Hall
Sponsor:	Science Department
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