When heavy metal meets microplastic: Princeton’s campus as a living lab
National Science Foundation Earth Sciences Post-Doctoral Fellow Lauren Pincus has been studying the interaction of microplastics and heavy metals in the natural environment. Using Lake Carnegie on Princeton University’s campus as a real-world laboratory, as well as two other aquatic sites in New Jersey, Dr. Pincus’s research will help scientists better understand the risks microplastics pose to ecosystems.
Video produced by the Princeton University Office of Sustainability. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. EAR-PF: 2052956. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. This research used the HXN, SRX, and ISS beamlines of the National Synchrotron Light Source II, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-SC0012704.