Anna Robuck | Live Seabird Dissection

Sep 30, 2020  13:00 - 13:45

(GMT -4:00) Eastern Time

Event URL:  http://www.exploringbytheseat.com/lesson/anna-robuck-seabird-dissection/
Hosted by: Exploring By The Seat of Your Pants

Join Anna for a live dissection of a seabird to see if we find plastic in its stomach. Her research examines "new" contaminants like water repellant compounds compared to "legacy" pollutants like flame retardants in seabird tissue and ocean water, to better figure out how seabirds are accumulating these pollutants. She also characterizes plastic ingestion in seabirds to better figure out how plastics accumulate in birds. She is the managing editor of oceanbites.org and constantly seeks to spread awareness about plastic and chemical pollution in the oceans.