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Plastics science for a cleaner future

Institution Name
Project
Term Award
University of British Columbia Maria Maldonado
Sources, sinks and fate of microplastics in the Strait of Georgia and its urbanized watershed: a solution-oriented natural mesocosm study
4 $999,152

University of Guelph

Ryan Prosser
The risk of microplastics to Canada's ecosystems

4

$999,400

Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Daniel Cyr
Assessing the toxicity and inflammatory response associated with human health and exposure to nanoplastics

4

$1,000,000

Université du Québec à Rimouski

Zhe Lu
Microplastics and plastic additives in the St. Lawrence River and Estuary: occurrence, fate and
impacts

4

$996,102

University of Toronto

Chelsea Rochman
pELAstic: a whole-ecosystem experiment to understand the fate and effects of microplastics

4

$999,440

University of Waterloo

Philippe Van Cappellen
Microplastics fingerprinting at the watershed scale: from sources to receivers

4

$1,000,000

University of Windsor

Jill Crossman
Source-specific identification,
characterization and control of microplastics across a remote, rural and urban gradient

4

$999,992