Sanders, Dorothea
Dorothea Sanders
Public Service Associate
Marine Extension
Website
sandersd@uga.edu
Marine debris, microplastics, marine education
Downloadable information for the NSF/IUCRC CB2 Planning Meeting, Feb. 6-7
This page hosts downloadable documents for the Feb. 6-7, 2018, planning meeting to develop a new site for the Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites, a National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center.
IUCRC Planning Grant Workshop Agenda — posted Jan. 24
Click here to return to main CB2 Planning Meeting page and link to registration
Environmental engineer talks to middle schoolers about her marine debris tracker
Dr. Jenna Jambeck, director of the Center for Circular Materials Management – part of the New Materials Institute – talks to middle school students about her successful Marine Debris Tracker mobile app.
Read the full article from the Golden Isles News
For more information on Dr. Janbeck’s Marine Debris Tracker visit the Marine Debris Tracker page. You can download the app, track debris and contribute to the project.
Oceans could contain more plastic than fish by 2050: NMI’s Dr. Jenna Jambeck quoted in The Guardian
Corporations are recognizing the issues surrounding plastic pollution in the world’s oceans and beginning to make changes.
NMI’s Dr. Jenna Jambeck is quoted in The Guardian
Jenna Jambeck, associate professor of environmental engineering at the University of Georgia, says cooperation is key. “If industry can collaborate on this,” she says, “there can be economy of scale incentives.”
Read the full article in The Guardian.
NMI Information Summit
The New Materials Information Summit will take place on February 14 beginning at 9:00 am at the UGA Special Collections Library.
This event is open to UGA Faculty and Staff who are interested in new and advanced materials research. Please attend and discover UGA’s commitment to materials science and meet other researchers working in the field. Breakfast and lunch provided. Registration is free but required.
Click HERE for more information.
Industry, academia met at UGA to talk about the future of fabrics
Industry, academia and military mixed Thursday to talk about fibers and fabrics at a conference on the University of Georgia campus.
They didn’t talk about ribbons and bows at the day-long “AFFOA Industry Day” in the Georgia Center for Continuing Education, though, but manufacturing processes that might dramatically reduce the water needed for dyeing fabrics of the future – fabrics that might render a uniform or parachute undetectable, or garments that could keep their its wearer cool or warm, depending on outside conditions.
See complete article in the Athens Banner-Herald, Tuesday, Oct. 25.