Beach Plastic Exploration and Movie Event!

Come join the Dauphin Island Sea Lab and Mississippi State University Coastal Research and Extension Service to learn about the fate of plastics in our environment. Expert-led Nurdle Patrols at 10 am and 12 pm Showings* of “The Smog of the Sea” at 11:15 am and 1:15 pm *Light Refreshments will be served We’ll be learning about and conducting “nurdle patrols” to find and document plastics on our beaches and adding our data to the map (see https://nurdlepatrol.org/map). There’ll be informational tables from MSU Extension Agents about how we study microplastics, how microplastics impact the marine environment, and how we can reduce our everyday use of plastic.