2019 SWANApalooza

Kara Lavender Law, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Oceanography
Sea Education Association


At the Sea Education Association, Kara Lavender Law is studying the sources, distribution, transformation and fate of plastic debris in the ocean. Trained as a physical oceanographer, Dr. Law’s current research interests focus on the sources of plastic to the marine environment, understanding how ocean physics determines the distribution of plastic and other marine debris, and the degradation and ultimate fate of different plastic materials in the ocean. She is co-chair of the SCOR Working Group FLOTSAM (Floating Litter and its Oceanic TranSport Analysis and Modelling), and serves as the co-principal investigator of the Marine Debris Working Group at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS). Dr. Law holds a Ph.D. degree in physical oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Duke University.

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