• An interlaboratory comparison exercise for the determination of microplastics in standard sample bottles 

      Isobe, Atsuhiko; Buenaventura, Nina T; Chastain, Stephen; Chavanich, Suchana; Cózar, Andrés; DeLorenzo, Marie; Hagmann, Pascal; Hinata, Hirofumi; Kozlovskii, Nikolai; Lusher, Amy L; Martí, Elisa; Michida, Yutaka; Mu, Jingli; Ohno, Motomichi; Potter, Gael; Ross, Peter S; Sagawa, Nao; Shim, Won Joon; Song, Young Kyoung; Takada, Hideshige; Tokai, Tadashi; Torii, Takaaki; Uchida, Keiichi; Vassillenko, Katerina; Viyakarn, Voranop; Zhang, Weiwei (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      An interlaboratory comparison exercise was conducted to assess the consistency of microplastic quantification across several laboratories. The test samples were prepared by mixing one liter seawater free of plastics, ...
    • A multilevel dataset of microplastic abundance in the world’s upper ocean and the Laurentian Great Lakes 

      Isobe, Atsuhiko; Azuma, Takafumi; Cordova, Muhammad Reza; Cózar, Andrés; Galgani, Francois; Hagita, Ryuichi; Kanhai, La Daana; Imai, Keiri; Iwasaki, Shinsuke; Kako, Shin’ichro; Kozlovskii, Nikolai; Lusher, Amy L; Mason, Sherri A; Michida, Yutaka; Mituhasi, Takahisa; Morii, Yasuhiro; Mukai, Tohru; Popova, Anna; Shimizu, Kenichi; Tokai, Tadashi; Uchida, Keiichi; Yagi, Mitsuharu; Zhang, Weiwei (Journal article, 2021)
      A total of 8218 pelagic microplastic samples from the world’s oceans were synthesized to create a dataset composed of raw, calibrated, processed, and gridded data which are made available to the public. The raw microplastic ...
    • Reporting Guidelines to Increase the Reproducibility and Comparability of Research on Microplastics 

      Cowger, Win; Booth, Andy M; Hamilton, Bonnie M; Thaysen, Clara; Primpke, Sebastian; Munno, Keenan; Lusher, Amy L; Dehaut, Alexandre; Vaz, Vitor P; Liboiron, Max; Devriese, Lisa I; Hermabessiere, Ludovic; Rochman, Chelsea; Athey, Samantha N; Lynch, Jennifer M; De Frond, Hannah; Gray, Andrew; Jones, Oliver AH; Brander, Susanne; Steele, Clare; Moore, Shelly; Sanchez, Alterra; Nel, Holly (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The ubiquitous pollution of the environment with microplastics - a diverse suite of contaminants - is of growing concern for science and currently receives considerable public, political, and academic attention. The potential ...
    • Tools and constraints in monitoring interactions between marine litter and megafauna: Insights from case studies around the world 

      Claro, Francoise; Fossi, Maria Cristina; Ioakeimidis, Christos; Baini, Matteo; Lusher, Amy L; McFee, Wayne; McIntosh, Rebecca Ruth; Pelamatti, Tania; Sorce, Meaghan; Galgani, François; Hardesty, Britta Denise (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Adverse impacts of marine litter is documented on >1400 species, including marine megafauna (fish, birds, sea turtles and mammals). The primary impacts include ingestion and entanglement, and there is increasing concern ...
    • Using mussel as a global bioindicator of coastal microplastic pollution 

      Li, Jiana; Lusher, Amy L; Rotchell, Jeanette M.; Deudero, Salud; Turra, Alexander; Bråte, Inger Lise N; Sun, Chengjun; Hossain, M. Shahadat; Li, Qipei; Kolandhasamy, Prabhu; Shi, Huahong (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The ubiquity and high bioavailability of microplastics have an unknown risk on the marine environment. Biomonitoring should be used to investigate biotic impacts of microplastic exposure. While many studies have used mussels ...
    • Validation of a Method for Extracting Microplastics from Complex, Organic-Rich, Environmental Matrices 

      Hurley, Rachel R; Lusher, Amy L; Olsen, Marianne; Nizzetto, Luca (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Complex and organic-rich solid substrates such as sludge and soil have been shown to be contaminated by microplastics; however, methods for extracting plastic particles have not yet been systemically tested or standardized. ...