We found out today that we received a $249,978 NSF grant for the submission: Using Ocean Plastic Research to Increase Student Engagement and Persistence in Biology. Needless to say, we are absolutely ecstatic. Here is the announcement: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832545
and here is a nice blog posting by Jeff Bowman at Scripps Oceanography describing our pilot last June:
More to come…still in the afterglow!
