NOAA Joins Seattle Aquarium for Microplastics and Marine Debris Workshop
OCT. 16, 2023 — On October 5-6, NOAA Marine Debris Program staff Andrew Mason and Hillary Burgess participated in a Microplastic and Marine Debris Workshop hosted by the Seattle Aquarium. The workshop brought together microplastics and marine debris community members from government, academic, nonprofit, and industry organizations based in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California.
The goals of the workshop were to network, share current activities, and brainstorm a path forward for future research, cleanup efforts, and prevention in the region. Specific topics ranged from updates on regional policy movements, to methods development for detection and characterization of nanoplastics, to preliminary results of research on tire-wear particles.
Burgess presented a poster at the workshop on NOAA’s Marine Debris Monitoring and Assessment Project focused on recent updates to the Monitoring Toolbox and program design.