This project was intended to help the Port Phillip EcoCentre establish a long-term monitoring program to track microplastic pollution in Port Phillip Bay. We trialed, assessed, and designed an implementation plan for the Baykeeper Beach Litter Audit at nine pre-selected sites. We collected preliminary data and developed informational guides, instructional videos, and promotional flyers to recruit and inform citizen scientists. The monitoring program has potential to serve as a tool for management of the bay over the next fifty years.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Bayas, Andrea C.
• Lawes, Javier Alfredo
• Ford, Cierra K.
• Buckley, Maura Jeanne

Subject

• Environment
• Sustainability
• Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-050117-214848

Keyword

• Marine pollution
• Marketing
• Microplastics

Award

• President's IQP Award

Advisor

• McCauley, Stephen M.
• Michalson, William R.

Year

• 2017

Center

• Melbourne, Australia Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Port Phillip EcoCentre

Date created

• 2017-05-01

Location

• Melbourne

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-01-18