Ian Arturo graduated from Allegheny College, in Meadville, PA with a BS in environmental science in 2014. He received his MSc in Geology (Environment and Sustainability Collaborative) from the University of Western Ontario, in London, ON in 2021.
During his time at Western, Ian was a member of Dr. Patricia Corcoran’s lab group and the Synthetic Collective. Ian sampled Lake Michigan for the pan-Great Lakes pellet study, which involved collecting plastic pellets from the strandlines of 66 beaches across the five Laurentian Great Lakes. Ian’s thesis, “Plastic debris in the Laurentian Great Lakes System, North America: Analysis of types, abundances, and sources”, contained work on debris across the Great Lakes and Lake St. Clair. Ian is currently working for WSP USA in the NYC area, working on contaminated site investigations.