What Can We Do About Plastics in Our Waterways and Our Food Chain?
National Geographic Explorer and Explorers Club Fellow Rachael Z. Miller will tell us about her work to keep both macro and microplastic out of our public waterways, in a Zoom presentation March 13 at 7 p.m.
If you look for our trash, derelict fishing gear and microplastic in any aquatic environment, you will find it. What can we do about it? Rachael is going to tell us about the solutions that she and her team have developed.
The presentation, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Central Delaware County, is LWVCDC’s annual Jeanette Ross Lecture on the Environment. Jeanette Ross was a member of the League who devoted her life to environmental causes.
Register HERE and you will be sent the link to watch and listen to the lecture. If you register, you will also receive the video to watch at your convenience.
Rachael Zoe Miller is a National Geographic Explorer, inventor and Explorers Club Fellow working to protect the ocean through expedition-based science, conservation and storytelling. She is the Founder of Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, a nonprofit addressing marine debris, co-inventor of the Cora Ball, the world’s first microfiber-catching laundry ball and creator of CSI for the Ocean, a global citizen science microplastic mapping and monitoring program. Rachael leads teams on expeditions whose scientific results are published in peer-reviewed journals and education programs that inspire thousands of all ages.
Rachael and her team at the ocean-protection nonprofit Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean have been at the leading edge of marine debris and microplastic research, data-driven cleanups, solution development and solution implementation since 2010. They use a combination of expedition science, innovation and education to make an impact from the surface to the seafloor in urban, inland and coastal waters worldwide from the shores of Lake Champlain in their home state of Vermont, down the length of the Hudson River, remote islands in the Gulf of Maine, the North Pole to Antarctica and thousands of miles in between.
Learn about Rozalia Project’s solutions-oriented programs, Rachael and her team’s work in developing the Cora Ball, a consumer-scale solution to microfiber pollution, pioneering marine-debris-related educational programs, widely cited scientific work and CSI for the Ocean, a global citizen science microplastic mapping and monitoring program. She will leave you with actions everyone can take to protect our precious freshwater lakes and rivers and the one, big ocean toward which they flow. Please invite with your colleagues, friends, and family who care about building climate resilience in your communities to sign up for this free lecture.