Oceans of Plastic, Data, and Action by Tish Manning
About the Author
Tish Manning has been teaching for 25 years at the elementary and middle school level. She has taught in Puerto Rico and Hawaii, but has spent most of her teaching years in Maine. She led a group of middle and high school students, parents and teachers to the Amazon rainforest to study rainforest ecology in the late 1990’s. Tish works for Rural School Unit 71 in Maine. She has dedicated the last 5 years to helping students learn how to protect the ocean. Her work earned the New England Aquarium’s School Group award for Ocean Stewardship in 2019. She has received two NOAA Planet Stewards Project awards.