Time: Canceled
Location: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History

Speaker: Zoe Lucas
President, Sable Island Institute

Title: Sable Island: A Monitoring Platform for Marine Pollutants
Sable Island’s unique location provides the opportunity to study trends in marine pollutants, particularly oil and plastics. The beached/oiled seabird survey program is now in its 26th year. A recent study of beached bird corpses found that >90% of fulmars had ingested plastics. With ever-increasing concern about plastics in the ocean, monitoring data from the island advances our understanding of the sources and impacts of these global pollutants. Past and future work will be reviewed.