Join Cape Fear River Watch and Bonnie Monteleone for her presentation, “Save Our Seas Save Ourselves”.

Bonnie Monteleone is the Executive Director and Director of Science, Research and Academic Partnerships for the Plastic Ocean Project based in Wilmington, NC. Her research engages citizen science with school-age children to university graduate students and to date has assisted over 100 UNCW students in Directed Independent Studies (DIS) on plastic related research projects. She co-created the course “Plastic Marine Debris Field Studies” at UNCW and has received several conservation awards for her innovative research and outreach on marine plastic pollution. She is a co-investigator on the NOAA funded research project “Microplastic ingestion in the Black Sea Bass, Centropristis striata.” She established the analytical feasibility study working with a US company that is turning plastics into fuel. Ms. Monteleone is also an accomplished artist who integrates the plastic she has collected from the world’s oceans (near 10,000 nm) into modern artistic masterpieces. In 2017 she received the Governors Award for Environmental Communication, received the 2019 YWCA Women of Achievement for her environmental work, and a NC Coastal Federation Pelican Award in 2019.

June 5 from 9-11 AM via Zoom and FB Live. Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kcO-rqDwvEtEpmMaakri7TKhOvQA2urph