Susan Shaw Marine Environmental Research Institute 55 Main Street Blue Hill, ME 04614 207.374.2135 sshaw@meriresearch.org The world’s oceans are littered with plastic debris. With the 1997 discovery of staggering amounts of plastic collecting in the Pacific Ocean and North Atlantic gyres emerged the question of what happens to these plastics as they break down, since plastic particles … Continue reading DV-12-17 Microplastics pollution monitoring project