• Monitoring of microplastic pollution in the Arctic: Recent developments in polymer identification, quality assurance and control (QA/QC), and data reporting 

      Primpke, Sebastian; Booth, Andy; Gerdts, Gunnar; Gomiero, Alessio; Kögel, Tanja; Lusher, Amy Lorraine; Strand, Jakob; Scholz-Böttcher, Barbara; Galgani, Francois; Provencher, Jennifer F; Aliani, Stefano; Patankar, Shreyas; Vorkamp, Katrin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The pollution of the environment with plastics is of growing concern worldwide, including the Arctic region. While larger plastic pieces are a visible pollution issue, smaller microplastics are not visible with the naked ...
    • Spatial distribution of small microplastics in the Norwegian Coastal Current 

      Wu, Fangzhu; Reding, Lina; Starkenburg, Marrit; Leistenschneider, Clara; Primpke, Sebastian; Vianello, Alvise; Zonneveld, Karin A.F.; Huserbråten, Mats Brockstedt Olsen; Versteegh, Gerard J.M.; Gerdts, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      High concentrations of microplastic (MP) particles have been reported in the Arctic Ocean. However, studies on the high-resolution lateral and vertical transport of MPs from the European waters to the Arctic are still ...