A pair of UAF engineering students will try to collect samples every 2,000 feet on Denali, in an effort to determine if the tiny plastic particles are as abundant there as they are elsewhere on Earth.
Roger Jaramillo, left, and Matthew Crisafi-Lurtsema pose on the UAF campus before heading to the shoulder of Denali, where they will sample for microplastics.
When their meals are all bagged up, the pair will fly from Talkeetna to Kahiltna Glacier on Denali on May 8. They will carry with them 32 bottles for sampling snow, new down bibs and jackets and Jaramillo’s ukulele. Scientists have found microplastics in every marine habitat in which they have looked, wrote researchers from the Ocean Conservancy. We inhale those particles and eat them along with our food and drink. Blue whales consume up to 10 million pieces of microplastic each day.
“It’s not going to solve any problems, but it will give us a baseline of what the problem is,” Jaramillo said. “It’s really crazy to think this is happening,” he said during a recent interview on the UAF campus. “It’s not even a year and I’m about to leave on a plane . I’ve dreamt about this since I was a baby and watched movies about Denali.”
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