<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div><div><div><font color="#274e13" face="times new roman, serif" size="4">The CEES Seminar Series presents:</font></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#0b5394"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rachael Miller</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Founder/Chief Ocean Lover of the Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, National Geographic Explorer, Explorers Club Fellow</span></font><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Expedition Science for a Clean Lake and Ocean</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rozalia Project, a Vermont-based NGO, has been working on the problem of marine debris for the last 13 years on Lake Champlain, the Gulf of Maine and beyond. One of their areas of focus is microplastics and anthropogenic microfiber. In this talk, Rozalia Project Founder and lead expedition scientist Rachael Miller, will share methods and results from their microplastics and microfiber work in Lake Champlain, two sampling expeditions that spanned the entire Hudson River as well as, more recently, Hawaii and the Arctic. </span></p></div><div><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:bold"><br></span></font></p></div><div><div><b>Friday Sept 8th </b><b>3:30pm. </b><br></div><div><div><b>Hudson 106</b></div></div><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><br></p></div><div><div><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><b>All seminars are free and open to the public. </b><br></p></div></div><div>If you have any questions regarding the seminar please contact Dr. Mark Lesser (<a href="mailto:mless004@plattsburgh.edu" target="_blank">mless004@plattsburgh.edu</a>)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_llz5ntvn1" alt="Slide2.JPG" width="493" height="370" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"></div></div></div>