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PRESS RELEASE -- February 1, 2025

 

 

 

Dealing with Microplastics in our Environment:

NMC students' research gives answers.

Tuesday March 4, 2025
6:00 - 7:30 PM

 

 

On Tuesday March 4, 2025, from 6:00 to 7:30 PM, the League of Women Voters-Grand Traverse Area (LWVGTA) will present a program focused on understanding how microplastics are impacting our environment.

 

NMC Biology instructor Dr. Nick Roster will discuss how his biology students have spent a year surveying the environment in Grand Traverse County and beyond in search of how microplastics have invaded our environment. The research has a two-fold purpose. One is to assess the level of microplastics in our environment, the other is to expose students to authentic scientific research.

 

He will be joined by some of his students that have participated in the research project.

 

The program can also be viewed virtually at:

  • Traverse Area Community Media website livestream, www.TACM.tv/CommunityTvNow
  • League of Women Voters of the Grand Traverse Area (www.lwvgta.org) Facebook page
  • Community TV Channel 189 with Spectrum cable TV in northwest lower Michigan.

 

Nick Roster is a native of Traverse City, graduating from Traverse City Senior High School (before it was Central). After researching toads at Central Michigan University and Rattlesnakes in Oklahoma, he found his way back to Michigan, through Wyoming where he met his wife. He is currently in his 19th year at NMC and has two sons at TC West Senior High.

 

The LWVGTA collaborates with TADL and TACM to offer programs and forums in face-to-face and virtual format. The LWV is a national, nonpartisan organization whose main mission is to empower and inform voters and to defend Democracy. The League neither endorses nor opposes candidates or parties, but encourages the informed and active participation of all citizens in government. The League works to increase public understanding of public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.  The website of the local league is www.lwvgta.org.

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