Principal investigator
Max Liboiron, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Call
Cycle II, Irving Shipbuilding Inc. Projects
The project established the first studies and the first baseline for plastic ingestion in food fish central to northern sustenance and livelihoods, partnered on the first monitoring exhibition for surface plastics through the arctic, and invented, validated, and released the first inexpensive, do-it-yourself scientific trawl for surface plastic exploration designed explicitly for northern waters.