Microplastics and other buoyant floating objects sampled from the open sea (IMAGE)

Kyushu University

Microplastics and other buoyant floating objects sampled from the open sea

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Atsuhiko Isobe of Kyushu University’s Research Institute for Applied Mechanics displays a sample of microplastics and other buoyant objects collected by his team from the open sea during a field campaign. Isobe and a global team of oceanographers have collected and calibrated data from over 8,000 microplastic samples taken from around the world between 2000 and 2019 to create a publicly available standardized dataset of microplastic abundance for aiding the assessment of the reality of the microplastics situation and its effects on aquatic life.

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Kyushu University/Isobe Lab

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