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Module 4: Human impacts and Module 1: Cause and effect - AUSMAP microplastics

 

The Australian Microplastic Assessment Project is a national collaborative project, collecting invaluable data on the presence and type of microplastic in Australian waterways and oceans. Students will conduct fieldwork on microplastic, macrolitter and environmental parameters in the Hawkesbury River to add to the AUSMAP database. Complete units of work for Investigating Science and Earth and Environmental Science are available for this excursion. 

Brewongle is enabling students to partake in a national citizen science initiative to survey and map microplastics around Australia. Utilising the rigid AUSMAP methodology, you will collect and analyse microplastic samples from the beach at Macquarie Park in Windsor.

 

AUSMAP introduction video

Video length 1 minute and 41 seconds.