Anthropogenic particles in sediment from an Arctic fjord

The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

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

Tying up Loose Ends of Microplastic Pollution in the Arctic: Distribution from the Sea Surface through the Water Column to Deep-Sea Sediments at the HAUSGARTEN Observatory

(2020) Mine B. Tekman et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Food web transfer of plastics to an apex riverine predator

(2020) Joseph M. D’Souza et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Microplastic accumulation in deep-sea sediments from the Rockall Trough

(2020) Winnie Courtene-Jones et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Types, occurrence and distribution of microplastics in sediments from the northern Tyrrhenian Sea

(2020) Michele Mistri et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Summer sea ice melt and wastewater are important local sources of microlitter to Svalbard waters

(2020) Lisa W. von Friesen et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Temporal Trends in Marine Litter at Three Stations of the HAUSGARTEN Observatory in the Arctic Deep Sea

(2020) Karla B. Parga Martínez et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Deep sea sediments of the Arctic Central Basin: A potential sink for microplastics

(2019) La Daana K. Kanhai et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Sinking of floating plastic debris caused by biofilm development in a freshwater lake

(2019) Xianchuan Chen et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Low incidence of plastic ingestion among three fish species significant for human consumption on the island of Newfoundland, Canada

(2019) Max Liboiron et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Dispersion, Accumulation, and the Ultimate Fate of Microplastics in Deep-Marine Environments: A Review and Future Directions

(2019) Ian A. Kane et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

Minerals and microstructure identification using Raman instruments: Evaluation of field and laboratory data in preparation for space mission

(2019) C. Malherbe et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

An optimized density-based approach for extracting microplastics from soil and sediment samples

(2019) Xiaoxin Han et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

First evidence of microplastics ingestion in benthic amphipods from Svalbard

(2019) Valentina Iannilli et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Evaluation of microplastic release caused by textile washing processes of synthetic fabrics

(2018) Francesca De Falco et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastics in freshwater river sediments in Shanghai, China: A case study of risk assessment in mega-cities

(2018) Guyu Peng et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Initial data on adsorption of Cs and Sr to the surfaces of microplastics with biofilm

(2018) Mathew P. Johansen et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY

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

(2018) Laurent Brach et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Ocean convergence and the dispersion of flotsam

(2018) Eric A. D’Asaro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic

(2018) Ilka Peeken et al.   Nature Communications

Microplastics in the Arctic: A case study with sub-surface water and fish samples off Northeast Greenland

(2018) Silvia Morgana et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Methods for sampling and detection of microplastics in water and sediment: A critical review

(2018) Joana Correia Prata et al.   TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

High levels of microplastic pollution in the sediments and benthic organisms of the South Yellow Sea, China

(2018) Jun Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Review on the occurrence and fate of microplastics in Sewage Treatment Plants

(2018) Georgia Gatidou et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

High Quantities of Microplastic in Arctic Deep-Sea Sediments from the HAUSGARTEN Observatory

(2017) Melanie Bergmann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Intense deformation field at oceanic front inferred from directional sea surface roughness observations

(2017) Nicolas Rascle et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Large microplastic particles in sediments of tributaries of the River Thames, UK – Abundance, sources and methods for effective quantification

(2017) Alice A. Horton et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Trophic transference of microplastics under a low exposure scenario: Insights on the likelihood of particle cascading along marine food-webs

(2017) M.F.M. Santana et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Citizen scientists reveal: Marine litter pollutes Arctic beaches and affects wild life

(2017) Melanie Bergmann et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastic contamination of intertidal sediments of Scapa Flow, Orkney: A first assessment

(2017) J. Blumenröder et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Isolation and characterization of Arctic microorganisms decomposing bioplastics

(2017) Aneta K. Urbanek et al.   AMB Express

The Arctic Ocean as a dead end for floating plastics in the North Atlantic branch of the Thermohaline Circulation

(2017) Andrés Cózar et al.   Science Advances

Analysis of environmental microplastics by vibrational microspectroscopy: FTIR, Raman or both?

(2016) Andrea Käppler et al.   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Extraction, enumeration and identification methods for monitoring microplastics in the environment

(2016) Qiongxuan Qiu et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Adsorption of trace metals by microplastic pellets in fresh water

(2015) Andrew Turner et al.   Environmental Chemistry

When Microplastic Is Not Plastic: The Ingestion of Artificial Cellulose Fibers by Macrofauna Living in Seagrass Macrophytodetritus

(2015) François Remy et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Total mercury and methylmercury distributions in surface sediments from Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, Norwegian Arctic

(2015) Yang Liu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Interactions between microplastics and phytoplankton aggregates: Impact on their respective fates

(2015) Marc Long et al.   MARINE CHEMISTRY

A critical assessment of visual identification of marine microplastic using Raman spectroscopy for analysis improvement

(2015) Robin Lenz et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Do bioturbation and consumption affect coastal Arctic marine soft-bottom communities?

(2015) Sina Petrowski et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Microplastics in Arctic polar waters: the first reported values of particles in surface and sub-surface samples

(2015) Amy L. Lusher et al.   Scientific Reports

Plastic debris in the open ocean

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

Global warming releases microplastic legacy frozen in Arctic Sea ice

(2014) Rachel W. Obbard et al.   Earths Future

The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris

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

New techniques for the detection of microplastics in sediments and field collected organisms

(2013) Michiel Claessens et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Increase of litter at the Arctic deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN

(2012) Melanie Bergmann et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

The structure of benthic environments and the paleochemical record of foraminifera

(2011) Paul Loubere et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Microplastics in the marine environment

(2011) Anthony L. Andrady   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

How does climate change influence arctic mercury?

(2011) Gary A. Stern et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Early microbial biofilm formation on marine plastic debris

(2010) Delphine Lobelle et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Biological degradation of plastics: A comprehensive review

(2008) Aamer Ali Shah et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES