A $135,000 state grant will support an environmental study led by a professor at the State University of New York of Fredonia. The study by Dr. Sherri Mason, called "Determining Degradation Rates, Products and Impacts for Prominent Plastics in Freshwater Environs," is one of only seven projects approved for funding from the New York Sea Grant program. The grant supports one Fredonia graduate and one undergraduate student, as well as one doctoral student at the University of Buffalo. Work on the study began last May and will continue through April 2018.