Please join us for the UWT Environmental Seminar Monday! "Results from Poking Holes in Puget Sound" Julie Masura, Lecturer/Research Scientist, Environmental Science, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma Monday, December 1, 2014 SCI 309, 12:25-1:25pm Feel free to bring your lunch! The UWT Environmental Seminars are free and open to the public. SPEAKER BIO Julie Masura is a lecturer and research scientist at the University of Washington Tacoma where she teaches geoscience courses and mentors undergraduate students in primary research, including historic reconstructions of sediment cores in Puget Sound and determining plastics concentrations in the waters of the Pacific Northwest. She has had the opportunity to use her training as a sedimentologist to study ocean sediments in Puget Sound of Washington state, and Barkley and Clayoquot Sounds of Vancouver Island. Understanding the presence and distribution of Alexandrium catenella, a toxic dinoflagellate, throughout these water bodies is the cornerstone to all of her research involvement. Her microplastics work stems from looking at microscopic organisms within ocean sediments. Julie has worked with her research team to create field sampling techniques and laboratory methods to capture, identify and quantify microplastics in water, sediment, and sand. Julie received her B.S. and M.S. in Geology from Washington State University. Cheers, Jim James E. Gawel, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. of Environmental Chemistry and Engineering Environmental Science and Studies Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program University of Washington Tacoma 1900 Commerce St Campus Box 358436 Tacoma, WA 98402 Phone: 253-692-5815 E-mail: jimgawel@uw.edu