Lecturers at the Jefferson Educational Society

Originally from Dallas, Texas, Dr. Sherri A. Mason earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin.  She completed her doctorate in Chemistry at the University of Montana as a NASA Earth System Science Scholar. She is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the State University of New York at Fredonia. Though her background is in atmospheric chemistry, her research group is now poised at the forefront of research on plastic pollution. As co-PI on the first-ever survey for plastic pollution within the open waters of the Great Lakes, her research group is among the first to study the prevalence and impact of plastic pollution within freshwater ecosystems and, as such, has been featured within hundreds of mass media articles, including the New York Times, the Huffington Post, and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.