The Northland College Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation is hosting a public lecture for World Water Day 2023 titled “The Perils of Plastic.” Dr. Sherri Mason will present an overview of what plastic is, its proliferation in our society, and its emergence as one of the most prominent environmental pollutants. Dr. Mason and her research team were among the first to study plastic pollution within freshwater systems and started within the largest freshwater ecosystem in the world: the Laurentian Great Lakes of North America.

This event is free and open to the public.