This is the first of four presentations by FY17 Marine Debris Program Research Grant awardees, as part of the NOAA Marine Debris Research Webinar Series: Addressing the Ecological Risks of Microplastic. The presentation by Beth Polidoro, Arizona State University, is titled “A screening-level ecological risk assessment for microplastics in seafood in American Samoa.” 

The other three presentations in the series will soon be added to the schedule on the following dates:

• Tue Oct 6: Scott Gallager, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, "Assessment of Plastic Marine Debris Export Mechanisms and Risk to Sea Scallop Fisheries of the Mid-Atlantic Bight"  
• Tue Oct 20: Dr. Evan Ward, University of Connecticut, "Selective ingestion of microplastics by oysters: exposure assessment as a predictive tool for assessing the environmental risk to commercially important bivalves"
• Thu Oct 22: Drs. Susanne Brander, Oregon State University and Alison Taylor, University of North Carolina Wilmington, "Microplastic ingestion by the black sea bass, Centropristis striata: An assessment of potential impacts on health of an Atlantic commercial fish species"

To register for these seminars or find more information, visit the NOAA Science Seminars webpage. 

For more information, please contact Amy.Uhrin@noaa.gov.

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