Por qué necesitamos mejor tecnología para estudiar los microplásticos | Jenni Brandon | TEDxEncinitas Blvd

La bióloga marina Jennifer Brandon, doctora en la materia, analiza los avances tecnológicos en la investigación marina que permiten observar los microplásticos a una escala mucho más fina. Su trabajo se centra en la contaminación por plásticos e incluye técnicas desarrolladas para identificar y cuantificar microplásticos. También aborda el aumento de microplásticos registrado en los sedimentos modernos. La charla se presentó en TEDxEncinitasBlvd, un evento TEDx organizado de forma independiente.

• Mejores herramientas para detectar microplásticos en el medio marino
• Métodos para identificar y cuantificar microplásticos
• Microplásticos hallados en los registros sedimentarios modernos

This talk from Dr. Jennifer Brandon at TEDxEncinitasBlvd explores the technological breakthroughs in marine research that are now allowing us to see microplastics at a whole new scale. TEDxEncinitasBlvd was made possible by Executive Producer, Lead Organizer, and Editor Rohan Phadnis, WayZero, and BAAIRS. Dr. Jennifer Brandon is a PhD marine biologist and ecologist who has spent most of the last decade researching plastic pollution. She has developed multiple new techniques to identify and quantify microplastics and she was the first to discover the exponential increase of microplastics being left behind in our modern sediment record. She has been interviewed dozens of times for her expertise in marine plastics, including by NPR, The New Yorker, and the BBC. She is also an expert in science communication, and has given hundreds of lectures and invited talks, including as a National Academy of Sciences Distinguished Speaker and as a guest of the US Consulate in Brazil. Jenni holds a MS in Marine Biology and PhD in Biological Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx