Kara Lavender Law

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2020-2024
Publications (10 Years): 13

Top Venues

Environmental science & technology

Annals of global health

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Science advances

National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT)

Scripps Institution of Oceanography (PHD)

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Affiliation History

National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT)

United States

Member

National Science Foundation

United States

Peer Reviewer

Annales Geophysica; Deep-Sea Research; Environmental Research Letters; Environmental Science and Technology; Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science; Geophysical Research Letters; Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology; Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans; Journal of Physical Oceanography; Marine Pollution Bulletin; Nature; Oceanography; Water Research

United States

Peer reviewer

Gulf of Maine Marine Education Association

United States

Board of Directors

Editorial board of MarineDebris

United States

Member

Sea Education Association Inc

United States

Research Professor :: Oceanography

Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP) Working Group 40: Sources, fate and effects of micro-plastics in the environment – a global assessment

United States

Member

Trash Free Seas Alliance, Ocean Conservancy

United States

Advisory member

GEF Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme workshop on floating macro- and micro-plastics in the global ocean

United States

Participant

National Academy of Sciences Discussion Forum: Micro-plastics in the marine environment & potential human health risks

United States

Participant

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) Working Group on Marine Debris,

United States

Co-Principal Investigator

Sea Education Association Inc

United States

SSV Robert C. Seamans, Plastics at SEA: North Pacific Expedition, North Pacific Ocean, October 2-November 9, 2012, Principal investigator. Research expedition dedicated to studying the distribution and ecological impacts of floating plastic marine debris

State University of New York

United States

Visiting Researcher :: Department of Physics and Astronomy

Ocean Health Index Scientific Research Team

United States

Member

Sea Education Association Inc

United States

Research Oceanographer :: Oceanography

Hydrodynamics of Marine Debris Workshop, 5th International Marine Debris Conference

United States

Workshop convener (with Dr. Nikolai Maximenko, University of Hawai’i)

State University of New York, Geneseo

United States

Adjunct Faculty :: Physics and Astronomy

Plastic Debris in the Ocean: Quantifying the Problem and Investigating Its Impacts, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR, Feb. 2010.

United States

• Session convener and chair (with Dr. Christopher Reddy, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Sea Education Association Inc

United States

SSV Corwith Cramer, Plastics at SEA: North Atlantic Expedition, North Atlantic Ocean, June 10-July 14, 2010, Principal investigator. Research cruise dedicated to studying the abundance and distribution of floating plastic marine debris.

Sea Education Association Inc

United States

Oceanography Faculty/Chief Scientist :: Oceanography

Woods Hole Science and Technology Education Partnership (WHSTEP)

United States

Executive committee member

Sea Education Association Inc

United States

Chief Scientist on ten oceanographic cruises (each 4-6 weeks) leading at-sea research component of SEA Semester program, SSV Corwith Cramer (Atlantic and Caribbean) and SSV Robert C. Seamans (Pacific), 2003-2008

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

United States

Visiting Investigator :: Physical Oceanography Department

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

United States

Postdoctoral Scholar :: Physical Oceanography

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

United States

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow :: Physical Oceanography

“New global perspectives: What were our observational capabilities in 1980? What are they now and how has WOCE helped? What might be our capability in 2010? In 2050?”, WOCE and Beyond Conference, San Antonio, TX, Nov. 2002.

United States

Session chair

University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography

United States

Graduate Student Researcher :: Physical Oceanography

University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography

United States

Teaching Assistant :: Physical Oceanography Department

North Carolina State University

United States

Research Technician :: Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

United States

Summer Student Fellow :: Physical Oceanography

Education History

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Sep 01 1995 - Aug 15 2001

United States

PHD :: Oceanography

Duke University Aug 15 1990 - May 05 1994

United States

BSC :: Mathematics

Publications

Erin E Tuttle, Charlotte Wiman, Samuel Muñoz, Kara Lavender Law, Aron Stubbins
Sunlight-Driven Photochemical Removal of Polypropylene Microplastics from Surface Waters Follows Linear Kinetics and Does Not Result in Fragmentation. Environmental science & technology (2024)
Erin E Tuttle, Charlotte Wiman, Samuel Muñoz, Kara Lavender Law, Aron Stubbins
Sunlight-Driven Photochemical Removal of Polypropylene Microplastics from Surface Waters Follows Linear Kinetics and Does Not Result in Fragmentation. Environmental science & technology 58 (12) (2024)
Erin E Tuttle, Charlotte Wiman, Samuel Muñoz, Kara Lavender Law, Aron Stubbins
Sunlight-Driven Photochemical Removal of Polypropylene Microplastics from Surface Waters Follows Linear Kinetics and Does Not Result in Fragmentation. Environmental science & technology 58 (12) (2024)
Erin E Tuttle, Charlotte Wiman, Samuel Muñoz, Kara Lavender Law, Aron Stubbins
Sunlight-Driven Photochemical Removal of Polypropylene Microplastics from Surface Waters Follows Linear Kinetics and Does Not Result in Fragmentation. Environmental science & technology 58 (12) (2024)
Erin E Tuttle, Charlotte Wiman, Samuel Muñoz, Kara Lavender Law, Aron Stubbins
Sunlight-Driven Photochemical Removal of Polypropylene Microplastics from Surface Waters Follows Linear Kinetics and Does Not Result in Fragmentation. Environmental science & technology 58 (12) (2024)
Philip J Landrigan, Hervé Raps, Maureen Cropper, Caroline Bald, Manuel Brunner, Elvia Maya Canonizado, Dominic Charles, Thomas C Chiles, Mary J Donohue, Judith Enck, Patrick Fenichel, Lora E Fleming, Christine Ferrier-Pagès, Richard Fordham, Aleksandra Karolina Gozt, Carly Griffin, Mark E Hahn, Budi Haryanto, Richard Hixson, Hannah Ianelli, Bryan D James, Pushpam Kumar, Amalia Laborde, Kara Lavender Law, Keith Martin, Jenna Mu, Yannick R Mulders, Adetoun Mustapha, Jia Niu, Sabine Pahl, Yongjoon Park, Maria-Luiza Pedrotti, Jordan Avery Pitt, Mathuros Ruchirawat, Bhedita Jaya Seewoo, Margaret Spring, John J Stegeman, William A Suk, Christos Symeonides, Hideshige Takada, Richard C Thompson, Andrea Vicini, Zhanyun Wang, Ella M Whitman, David Wirth, Megan Wolff, Aroub K Yousuf, Sarah Alison Dunlop
The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health. Annals of global health 89 (1) (2023)
Kara Lavender Law, Chelsea M Rochman
Large-scale collaborations uncover global extent of plastic pollution. Nature 619 (7969) (2023)
Philip J Landrigan, Hervé Raps, Maureen Cropper, Caroline Bald, Manuel Brunner, Elvia Maya Canonizado, Dominic Charles, Thomas C Chiles, Mary J Donohue, Judith Enck, Patrick Fenichel, Lora E Fleming, Christine Ferrier-Pagès, Richard Fordham, Aleksandra Karolina Gozt, Carly Griffin, Mark E Hahn, Budi Haryanto, Richard Hixson, Hannah Ianelli, Bryan D James, Pushpam Kumar, Amalia Laborde, Kara Lavender Law, Keith Martin, Jenna Mu, Yannick R Mulders, Adetoun Mustapha, Jia Niu, Sabine Pahl, Yongjoon Park, Maria-Luiza Pedrotti, Jordan Avery Pitt, Mathuros Ruchirawat, Bhedita Jaya Seewoo, Margaret Spring, John J Stegeman, William A Suk, Christos Symeonides, Hideshige Takada, Richard C Thompson, Andrea Vicini, Zhanyun Wang, Ella M Whitman, David Wirth, Megan Wolff, Aroub K Yousuf, Sarah Alison Dunlop
The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health. Annals of global health 89 (1) (2023)
Philip J Landrigan, Hervé Raps, Maureen Cropper, Caroline Bald, Manuel Brunner, Elvia Maya Canonizado, Dominic Charles, Thomas C Chiles, Mary J Donohue, Judith Enck, Patrick Fenichel, Lora E Fleming, Christine Ferrier-Pagès, Richard Fordham, Aleksandra Karolina Gozt, Carly Griffin, Mark E Hahn, Budi Haryanto, Richard Hixson, Hannah Ianelli, Bryan D James, Pushpam Kumar, Amalia Laborde, Kara Lavender Law, Keith Martin, Jenna Mu, Yannick R Mulders, Adetoun Mustapha, Jia Niu, Sabine Pahl, Yongjoon Park, Maria-Luiza Pedrotti, Jordan Avery Pitt, Mathuros Ruchirawat, Bhedita Jaya Seewoo, Margaret Spring, John J Stegeman, William A Suk, Christos Symeonides, Hideshige Takada, Richard C Thompson, Andrea Vicini, Zhanyun Wang, Ella M Whitman, David Wirth, Megan Wolff, Aroub K Yousuf, Sarah Alison Dunlop
The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health. Annals of global health 89 (1) (2023)
Philip J Landrigan, Hervé Raps, Maureen Cropper, Caroline Bald, Manuel Brunner, Elvia Maya Canonizado, Dominic Charles, Thomas C Chiles, Mary J Donohue, Judith Enck, Patrick Fenichel, Lora E Fleming, Christine Ferrier-Pagès, Richard Fordham, Aleksandra Karolina Gozt, Carly Griffin, Mark E Hahn, Budi Haryanto, Richard Hixson, Hannah Ianelli, Bryan D James, Pushpam Kumar, Amalia Laborde, Kara Lavender Law, Keith Martin, Jenna Mu, Yannick R Mulders, Adetoun Mustapha, Jia Niu, Sabine Pahl, Yongjoon Park, Maria-Luiza Pedrotti, Jordan Avery Pitt, Mathuros Ruchirawat, Bhedita Jaya Seewoo, Margaret Spring, John J Stegeman, William A Suk, Christos Symeonides, Hideshige Takada, Richard C Thompson, Andrea Vicini, Zhanyun Wang, Ella M Whitman, David Wirth, Megan Wolff, Aroub K Yousuf, Sarah Alison Dunlop
Correction: The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health. Annals of global health 89 (1) (2023)
Aron Stubbins, Kara Lavender Law, Samuel E Muñoz, Thomas S Bianchi, Lixin Zhu
Plastics in the Earth system. Science (New York, N.Y.) 373 (6550) (2021)
Stephanie B Borrelle, Jeremy L Ringma, Kara Lavender Law, Cole C Monnahan, Laurent Lebreton, Alexis McGivern, Erin L Murphy, Jenna R Jambeck, George H Leonard, Michelle A Hilleary, Marcus Eriksen, Hugh P Possingham, Hannah De Frond, Leah R Gerber, Beth A Polidoro, Akbar Tahir, Miranda L Bernard, Nicholas J Mallos, Megan D Barnes, Chelsea M Rochman
Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution. Science (New York, N.Y.) 369 (6510) (2020)
Kara Lavender Law, Natalie Starr, Theodore R Siegler, Jenna R Jambeck, Nicholas J Mallos, George H Leonard
The United States' contribution of plastic waste to land and ocean. Science advances 6 (44) (2020)

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