Join us for a lunch-and-learn seminar exploring the research on microplastics across Michigan’s diverse waterways—from the Great Lakes to rivers, streams, and inland lakes. A U-M scientist who has studied this system with her lab since 2013 will share how these tiny pollutants challenge our freshwater resources, looking upstream for potential solutions. The seminar will highlight the collective efforts of the multidisciplinary U-M team of biologists, chemists, modelers, and engineers who are unraveling the origins, movement, and effects of microplastics across the Great Lakes Basin and beyond.

NOTE: LOCATION CHANGE to Chemistry 1706

A light lunch will be served, so please RSVP.

After the talk, there is an optional guided tour of a new Museum of Natural History exhibit focused on this topic from 1:00-2:00PM.