It's been a very busy semester break for Dr. Sherri Mason. Fredonia's Chemistry and Environmental Sciences professor has been involved with a European speaking tour, which has coincided with another flurry of media activity surrounding her plastics pollution research in the Great Lakes and other fresh water systems. Already well known internationally for revealing the high concentrations of plastic "microbeads" found in all five Great Lakes, this time her findings came from the analysis of numerous species of fish, including brown trout, lake herring and perch. “Every one of the 18 species we sampled showed some plastic and the majority of this was fibers,” Mason said.
You can read the full Time story here, while the Associated Press' story, which has already been picked up by dozens of media around the world including The Huffington Post, can be seen here.