Jacob Bartz

Jacob Bartz is a medical student at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston McGovern Medical School.

A man overlooks Cañón del Río Blanco.
Environment

Microplastics Above Mexico: A High-Altitude Search for Pollution

by William McCarthy, Jacob Bartz, Thomas Copeland, Simon Birk, Dimitri Deheyn

Students collect saliva samples at 18,500 feet to uncover how microplastics in the atmosphere could harm health