COA had a busy November working on the plastics agenda! COA’s citizen report on microplastics monitoring and assessment is underway. COA’s Staff Scientist Swarna Muthukrishnan, PhD; Coastal Watershed Protection Coordinator, Alison McCarthy; and Microplastics Researcher, Catie Tobin attended the final Plastic Free Waters Partnership meeting of 2018, which was held at USEPA in New York. COA chairs the straws and microplastics workgroups in addition to being a member of the steering committee. The status and actions of the workgroups for 2018 were summarized and goals were established for 2019.
COA’s staff also underwent a Bloomberg MySQL training last month. Bloomberg collaborated with COA to create an online cloud-based platform that will upload huge data sets from COA’s bi-annual Beach Sweeps with the goal of providing an easy and effective way to upload, store and interpret Beach Sweeps data. The end result will help shape better debris management policies and programs.
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