Degree Type
Honors Capstone Project
Date of Submission
Spring 5-1-2019
Capstone Advisor
Michael Fudge
Honors Reader
Blythe Scherrer
Capstone Major
Information Management and Technology
Capstone College
Information Studies
Audio/Visual Component
no
Capstone Prize Winner
no
Won Capstone Funding
no
Honors Categories
Professional
Subject Categories
Animal Sciences | Environmental Health | Marine Biology
Abstract
My Honors thesis is an analysis of pollution data to gain more insight about the growing problem of marine plastic pollution. I retrieved online datasets collected by the Clean Swell trash collection mobile application and then analyzed this data using the Python programming language. After my Python analysis, I used Tableau to create data visualizations. This paper analyzes the effect that citizen science has on plastic pollution. Syracuse University’s recycling and trash figures, provided by Syracuse Haulers, are also analyzed. The purpose of including Syracuse University’s data is to bring a local point of view to this project and possibly motivate readers to work towards a solution to marine plastic pollution.
Recommended Citation
Munster, Kathryn, "An Analysis of Citizen Science and its Effect on Marine Plastic Pollution" (2019). Honors Capstone Projects - All. 1086.
https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/1086
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