Sherri Mason, right, shows plastic particles that were collected in a manta trawl to a film crew from Al Jazeera America during an excursion in the outer harbor of Buffalo, New York.
Sherri Mason’s 2012 study was the first survey for plastic pollution within the open waters of the Great Lakes. Here, shown on a penny for scale, are samples of the plastic microbeads she found in the water.
Emily Griffin, a rising senior studying community, environment, and development, is the current president of the student-run Lion's Pantry at Penn State. She has been active with the team at The Lion's Pantry since her first semester of her first-year on campus.
The Penn State Behrend Speaker Series will continue Feb. 13 with a program featuring the actor and writer Brendan Hunt, who plays Coach Beard on the Apple TV+ series “Ted Lasso.”
