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eXXpedition 2016 Great Lakes
clean up starts with Bayfield native
Justine Alkema
Clinton News Record
1000 people spent August
20 cleaning up the beloved
Great Lakes as a part of eXX-
pedition 2016. What started
as the small brainchild of
Bayfield native Jennifer Pate
turned into something much
bigger than she could have
hoped for.
"It ended up snowballing
into something quite phe-
nomenal," said Pate. Pate is
an environmental enthusi-
ast who has her MSc in
Environment, Science and
Society.
While beach clean-up was
a part of the event, numer-
ous boats also went out on
all the Great Lakes as well as
on the St. Lawrence River
and Lake St. Clair.
Volunteers spent the day
trawling for plastics in the
water and obtaining water
samples as well as brain-
storming solutions to keep
plastics out of the
waterways.
Pate organized the event
with Elaine McKinnon who
she met in 2014 when they
were both on a boat crossing
the Atlantic Ocean to con-
duct research on plastics in
waterways.
After talking, they realized
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they both lived by the Great
Lakes, and thought the jour-
ney they were on would be a
good thing to take home.
"It took us two years of
planning to put this
together," said Pate. "It's
been quite a process. We
brought leading researchers
together from across the
region, and it was incredible
to see those collaborations
happening."
One of the researchers
they got in contact with who
helped with the event was
Professor Sherri Mason from
the State University of New
York who is a leading
researcher in the Great
Lakes. Since Mason is well
connected to other profes-
sionals in her field, she was
able to connect them with a
number of other researchers
Boats trawling the water for microplastics.
to help out.
The day was also meant to
be an awareness event for
the massive issue of micro -
plastics in the Great Lakes;
there is a greater density of
microplastics in the Great
Lakes than in the ocean
gyers.
Microplastics are pieces of
plastic that are smaller than
5mm. One reason they enter
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waterways is because they
are able to pass through
waste treatment plants due
to their tiny size.
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