The Underwater Library at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
April 8, 2021
…her research on plastic pollution. With the help of Linsey Sala, Brandon documented microplastics in salps, pelagic invertebrates that form long, colonial chains. In a 2019 study, she estimated the ocean is contaminated by 8.3 million pieces of so-called mini-microplastics per cubic meter of water, a million times more than…
