Plastic Debris in the Marine Environment Economics and the Environment

Kara Law, Ph.D. is a Research Oceanographer at the Sea Education Association (SEA). She is interested in large-scale and mesoscale ocean circulation,and the intermediate and deep water formation in the North Atlantic and its role in the meridional overturning circulation. Her talk at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmnetal Studies is entitled "The Science Behind Ocean Garbage Patches: Plastic Debris in the Marine Environment."