Free Public Event sponsored by the Elisabeth W. and Henry A. Morss, Jr., Colloquia Endowed Fund. On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. located at the Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole ,MA. Keynote presentation: The Science of Ocean plastic pollution: “Laying the Foundation for Solutions” with Dr. Kara Lavender Law. Dr. Law is a faculty member at Sea Education Association, where she studies the distribution of plastic marine debris driven by ocean physics and the degradation and ultimate fate of plastics in the ocean. Followed by a panel discussion: International Perspectives on Marine Microplastics Research will be moderated by Dr. Heather Goldstone, host of Living Lab, WCAI, Cape & Islands NPR. Panelists include: Dr. Chelsea Rochman, University of Toronto, Canada; Dr. Hauke Kite-Powell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, U.S.A.; Dr. Gunnar Gerdts, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany: Dr. Hideshige Takada, Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Japan; Dr. Collin Ward, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, U.S.A. To reserve seats, get information, or view LIVE webcast: go.whoi.edu/microplastics. Reception to follow.