Interested in learning more about microplastics around Australia & the impact on humans & the environment?

🌊 Come and participate in our AUSMAP Scientist for a Day community morning at the Clean Up Cronulla Festival hosted by Sutherland Shire Council, Surfrider Foundation Cronulla, Sharks Have Heart, and Cronulla RSL.

👥 Join us for a hands-on AUSMAP microplastic sample - help us collect real data that will go directly towards our microplastic Hotspot Map.

What will you learn?

What are microplastics? and where we can find them in our local community.
How microplastic affects our aquatic environment, wildlife and us.
How AUSMAP is helping to reduce this problem, along with your help!

Expert: Dr Scott Wilson - AUSMAP Research Director

Location: Meet at the AUSMAP tent at the Clean Up Cronulla festival in Dunningham Park, Cronulla. We will walk as a group down to the beach sample location.

This is a free event - thanks to support of the Sutherland Shire Council, however, please register so we know how many we are expecting!

AUSMAP is 100% grant funded project - donations to support the ongoing development & delivery of AUSMAP are greatly appreciated. As a registered charity, all donations over $2 are tax-deductible.

About the AUSMAP Program

It’s hard to solve a problem you can’t see. Until recently, microplastic pollution presented scientists with a crisis that was invisible to the naked eye. Now we have AUSMAP - the Australian Microplastic Assessment Project.

AUSMAP is a global first, nationwide citizen science that engages and educates the community to collect scientifically reliable data on microplastics from shorelines across the country – from coasts to catchments – to identify litter hotspots and assist in source reduction.

AUSMAP is a powerful management tool that forms the basis to develop and implement regional litter prevention strategies for stakeholders to use, and act on.

We need to know how much is out there before we figure out what to do with it. And we need large numbers of Australians to engage with behaviour change so we can stop any more plastic from entering our waterways and design effective mitigation strategies.

That’s why we need you in our AUSMAP collaborative citizen science project!

Bring your friends and your family - this community event is for people of all ages!

For more information, please contact events@ausmap.org
Look forward to seeing you!