AUSMAP Microplastic Community Event - Hervey Bay, QLD

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

Come and participate in our AUSMAP Scientist for a Day program!

What will you Learn?

* How microplastics affects our aquatic environment, wildlife and us. 

* What are microplastics and where we can find them in our local community?

* How AUSMAP is helping to reduce this problem, along with your help!

* Gain hands-on experience and be a scientist for the morning & help collect a microplastic survey for AUSMAPs database - the largest nationally.

Expert: Dr Michelle Blewitt - Project Director & Dr Natasha Franklin - AUSMAP Research Officer

Location: meet on the grass near Enzo's on the Beach 

This is a free event - thanks to support of the Engaging Citizen Science Program, Department of Environment, Science and Innovation - 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!