• Analyse av mikroplast i marine sedimentprøver 

      Singdahl-Larsen, Cecilie; Consolaro, Chiara; Hjelset, Sverre (NIVA-rapport;7789-2022, Research report, 2022)
      Sedimentprøver, både overflateprøver fra det øverste laget (0-2 cm) av sedimentet og kjerneprøver (fra 0 til 30 cm), ble analysert for mikroplast på NIVA. Prøvene ble opparbeidet ved tetthetsseparasjon med natriumjodid ...
    • Development of a Norwegian monitoring program for Macroplastic and Litter 

      Falk-Andersson, Jannike; Lusher, Amy Lorraine; Haarr, Marthe Larsen; Rognerud, Idun; Hurley, Rachel; Hjelset, Sverre; Trubbach, Saskia (NIVA-rapport;7798-2022, Research report, 2022)
      The Norwegian Environment Agency (NEA) aims to strengthen environmental monitoring of macroplastic and litter pollution in Norway. Macroplastic and litter are items above 25 mm. Monitoring of litter in the Northern Fulmar ...
    • Interim report: Quantification of microplastic and plastic additives in water and fish in RAS (WP1) 

      Lusher, Amy Lorraine; Allan, Ian; Röhler, Laura; Snekkevik, Vilde Kloster; Collard, France; Hjelset, Sverre (NIVA-rapport;7961-2024, Report, 2024)
      Plastic material has been collected from three recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) and their infrastructure. All plastic sources were analysed to identify their polymer and additive contents and a reference library ...
    • Microplastics in Norwegian coastal areas, rivers, lakes and air (MIKRONOR1) 

      Bavel, Bert van; Lusher, Amy Lorraine; Consolaro, Chiara; Hjelset, Sverre; Singdahl-Larsen, Cecilie; Buenaventura, Nina Tuscano; Röhler, Laura; Pakhomova, Svetlana; Lund, Espen; Eidsvoll, David; Herzke, Dorte; Nerland Bråte, Inger-Lise (NIVA-rapport;7811-2023, Research report, 2022)
      The Norwegian Environment Agency (Miljødirektoratet, NEA) tasked the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) to initiate Norway’s National microplastic monitoring program. The program “Microplastics in Norwegian ...
    • Monitoring of microplastics in the Norwegian environment (MIKRONOR) 

      Alling, Vanja Karin Gunilla; Lund, Espen; Lusher, Amy Lorraine; van Bavel, Bert; Snekkevik, Vilde Kloster; Hjelset, Sverre; Singdahl-Larsen, Cecilie; Consolaro, Chiara; Jefroy, Madeline; Francés, Elena Martínez; Rødland, Elisabeth Strandbråten; Pakhomova, Svetlana; Knight, Jemmima; Schmidt, Natascha; Herzke, Dorte (NIVA-rapport;7922-2023, Research report, 2023)
      In 2021 The Norwegian Environment Agency (Miljødirektoratet) assigned the first analyses of microplastics within a national monitoring program “Microplastics in Norwegian coastal areas, rivers, lakes and air (MIKRONOR)” ...
    • Synthetic and natural rubber associated chemicals drive functional and structural changes as well as adaptations to antibiotics in in vitro marine microbiomes 

      Carlsen, Eira Catharine Lødrup; Hjelset, Sverre; Gomes, Tania; Igartha, Amaia; Sørensen, Lisbet; Booth, Andy; Hylland, Ketil; Eiler, Alexander (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      The leaching of additives from plastics and elastomers (rubbers) has raised concerns due to their potential negative impacts on the environment and the development of antibiotic resistance. In this study, we investigated ...