Northeastern Alumnus, Ethan Edson, and Professor Mark Patterson continue their longstanding collaboration to advance our understanding of microplastics in marine environments. While Edson’s company, Ocean Diagnostics, develops cutting edge technology and services to enable both scientists and citizens to collect and analyze microplastics pollution data more efficiently and accurately, Patterson and his team have been tasked to beta test these new tools. This partnership is working towards gathering baseline measurements and gaining a better understanding of how microplastics affect fish populations, in hopes of contributing to solutions to the global plastic pollution problem.