Fall Meeting 2022 | 12 December 2022
Aggregation Kinetics and Stability of Biodegradable Nanoplastics: Effects of Weathering and Proteins
Yingxue Yu + Markus Flury
Plastic pollution caused by conventional plastics has promoted the development and application of biodegradable plastics. However, biodegradable plastics do not degrade readily...
Fall Meeting 2022 | 12 December 2022
Field sampling procedures to quantify riverine plastic pollution in the U.S.
Ruth Branch + Ali Chamas + Andrew B Gray ...
Plastic pollution has been detected in all major U.S. rivers, but not quantified with comparable and consistent methods. The water depth sampled, mesh sizes of nets, sample...
Fall Meeting 2022 | 16 December 2022
Dunes, Microplastics and Time: Distribution of Microplastics in Sediments of the River Waal (Rhine), Netherlands
Thaiënne Van Dijk + Erik Van Onselen + Jim Best ...
Riverine corridors are the conduits through which plastics are transported to the ocean, and recent research has suggested that river valleys are also major stores of plastics,...
AGU Fall Meeting 2021 | 16 December 2021
Global emissions of atmospheric microplastics revealed from inverse modelling
Janice Brahney + Ondřej Tichý + Sabine Eckhardt
Since the first reports on the presence of plastic debris in the marine environment plastics have been steadily accumulating in the environment. The global production of plastics...
Fall Meeting 2022 | 16 December 2022
Drivers of Microplastic Ingestion by Fish in Four Inland Lakes, Minnesota, USA
Kathryn M Schreiner + Casey Schoenebeck + Elizabeth C Minor ...
Microplastic (plastic particles