Earlier this month, URI Plastics: Land to Sea investigators were interviews by reporters from WPRI 12 about their research on microplastics. J.P. Walsh, professor of oceanography and chair of the Coastal Resources Institute, and Victoria Fulfer, a Ph.D. candidate at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography, detailed their latest publication on how microplastics are accumulating in sediments throughout Narragansett Bay.
Jaime Ross, assistant professor in URI’s George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience and Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, also explained her latest research on how microplastics could impact human brain health.