Massive occurrence of benthic plastic debris at the abyssal seafloor beneath the Kuroshio Extension, the North West Pacific

The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

(2020) Erik van Sebille et al.   Environmental Research Letters

First evidence of plastic fallout from the North Pacific Garbage Patch

(2020) Matthias Egger et al.   Scientific Reports

The vertical distribution and biological transport of marine microplastics across the epipelagic and mesopelagic water column

(2019) C. Anela Choy et al.   Scientific Reports

Anticyclonic eddies increase accumulation of microplastic in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre

(2018) Laurent Brach et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic

(2018) L. Lebreton et al.   Scientific Reports

Rapid aggregation of biofilm-covered microplastics with marine biogenic particles

(2018) Jan Michels et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

All is not lost: deriving a top-down mass budget of plastic at sea

(2017) Albert A Koelmans et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Submarine canyons along the upper Sardinian slope (Central Western Mediterranean) as repositories for derelict fishing gears

(2017) Alessandro Cau et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

The Ryukyu Trench may function as a “depocenter” for anthropogenic marine litter

(2016) Motohiro Shimanaga et al.   JOURNAL OF OCEANOGRAPHY

A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

(2015) Erik van Sebille et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Evaluation of the applicability of the Estimated State of the Global Ocean for Climate Research (ESTOC) data set

(2015) S. Osafune et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Decadal variations in mixed layer salinity in the Kuroshio Extension recirculation gyre region: influence of precipitation during the warm season

(2015) Tomoyuki Kitamura et al.   JOURNAL OF OCEANOGRAPHY

East Asian seas: A hot spot of pelagic microplastics

(2015) Atsuhiko Isobe et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Distribution and assessment of marine debris in the deep Tyrrhenian Sea (NW Mediterranean Sea, Italy)

(2015) Michela Angiolillo et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine litter on the floor of deep submarine canyons of the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea: The role of hydrodynamic processes

(2015) Xavier Tubau et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

Deepwater marine litter densities and composition from submersible video-transects around the ABC-islands, Dutch Caribbean

(2014) A.O. Debrot et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine Litter Distribution and Density in European Seas, from the Shelves to Deep Basins

(2014) Christopher K. Pham et al.   PLoS One

Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea

(2014) Marcus Eriksen et al.   PLoS One

Plastic debris in the open ocean

(2014) A. Cozar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris

(2014) L. C. Woodall et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Effects of natural and anthropogenic processes in the distribution of marine litter in the deep Mediterranean Sea

(2013) Eva Ramirez-Llodra et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Litter in submarine canyons off the west coast of Portugal

(2011) Gideon Mordecai et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

On North Pacific circulation and associated marine debris concentration

(2011) Evan A. Howell et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Eddy-mean flow interaction in the decadally modulating Kuroshio Extension system

(2010) Bo Qiu et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Assessing marine debris in deep seafloor habitats off California

(2009) Diana L. Watters et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Synthetic polymers in the marine environment: A rapidly increasing, long-term threat

(2008) Charles James Moore   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH