Students partner with Alliance for the Great Lakes
By Daniel Fanning
Dr. Lorena Rios Mendoza with students during the 2014 Adopt-A-Beach program on Wisconsin Point
University of Wisconsin-Superior students, under the instruction of Dr. Lorena Rios Mendoza will be teaming up with Alliance for the Great Lakes Adopt-A-Beach program on Saturday, September 19, 2015 for a public event on Wisconsin Point Beach.
Saturday from 9 a.m. until noon, two UW-Superior classes are inviting campus and the Superior community to join them in a clean-up and completing a beach health assessment at Wisconsin Point Beach 3. The event is part of the International Coastal Cleanup program. They will be weighing all debris and overall plastic debris.
About 35 to 40 students from the university will be taking part in the program. It is a class in the chemistry department, “Our Chemical Environment” Chem-100 a general education class. Biology 100 students will also be taking part. The student groups will be assisting at several locations along the beach stretching from Wisconsin Point canal entry and along the shoreline.
Volunteers around the Great Lakes including Minnesota & Wisconsin and around the world will help to clean up shorelines and waterways while collecting valuable data. Want to participate? Find an event near you at www.greatlakesadopt.org.
Dr. Rios will be leading the group of students, faculty, staff, alumni and other interested community volunteers for her annual Adopt-a-Beach program. If you are interested please contact her prior to the event at (715) 394-8205 or email at lriosmen@uwsuper.edu
Dr. Rios Mendoza and her plastics research was recently featured in legislation in Wisconsin that will ban microbeads in the water in the future. More on Dr. Rios and her research can be found here: research on microplastics
More on the national program with the Alliance for the Great Lakes Adopt-A-Beach program can be found here: http://www.greatlakes.org/.
Event contact: Lorena Rios Mendoza (715) 394-8205, email: lriosmen@uwsuper.edu
Daniel Fanning, UWS Director of Communications
Daniel Fanning is the Director of Communications & Government Affairs at UW-Superior
