• 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 ...
    • Frequent sampling of microplastic particles in surface waters in the open parts of the Kattegat and Great Belt, Denmark 

      Lusher, Amy; Singdahl-Larsen, Cecilie; Jaccard, Pierre Franqois; van Bavel, Bert; Valestrand, Louise; Harvey, E. Therese; Andersen, Jesper Harbo (NIVA-rapport;7601, Research report, 2021)
      The EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive require that EU Member States establish appropriate strategies and sampling programmes for microplastic in the marine environment. We report the results of a second study sampling ...
    • Innovative reference materials for method validation in microplastic analysis including interlaboratory comparison exercises 

      Martínez Francés, Elena; van Bavel, Bert; Hurley, Rachel; Nizzetto, Luca; Pakhomova, Svetlana; Buenaventura, Nina Tuscano; Singdahl-Larsen, Cecilie; Magni, Marie-Louise Tambo; Johansen, Jon Eigill; Lusher, Amy Lorraine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Reference materials (RMs) are vital tools in the validation of methods used to detect environmental pollutants. Microplastics, a relatively new environmental pollutant, require a variety of complex approaches to address ...
    • Large-scale monitoring and risk assessment of microplastics in the Amazon River 

      Rico, Andreu; Redondo-Hasselerharm, Paula; Vighi, Marco; Waichman, Andrea Viviana; de Souza Nunes, Gabriel Silva; Oliveira, Rhaul de; Singdahl-Larsen, Cecilie; Hurley, Rachel; Nizzetto, Luca; Schell, Theresa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Microplastics (MPs) are one of the most widespread contaminants worldwide, yet their risks for freshwater ecosystems have seldom been investigated. In this study, we performed a large monitoring campaign to assess the ...
    • 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 ...
    • Microplastics Removal from a Plastic Recycling Industrial Wastewater Using Sand Filtration 

      Umar, Muhammad; Singdahl-Larsen, Cecilie; Ranneklev, Sissel Brit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The removal of microplastic from wastewater collected from a plastic recycling facility was investigated, using a laboratory scale sand-filter. Wastewater samples were collected before and after the onsite sand-filter, for ...
    • Mikroplastpartikler inn til og ut fra Bekkelaget renseanlegg gjennom ett år 

      Vogelsang, Christian; Kristiansen, Trond; Singdahl-Larsen, Cecilie; Buenaventura, Nina; Pakhomova, Svetlana; Eidsvoll, David Pettersen; Staalstrøm, André; Beylich, Bjørnar André (NIVA-rapport;7541-2020, Research report, 2020)
      På oppdrag for Vann- og avløpsetaten i Oslo kommune er det gjennomført en detaljert kartlegging av partikler av mikroplast i innløpet til Bekkelaget renseanlegg under ulike forhold i løpet av et helt år, og hvor det blir ...
    • Monitoring of microplastics in Danish marine waters using the Oslo-Kiel ferry as a ship-of-opportunity 

      van Bavel, Bert; Lusher, Amy; Jaccard, Pierre Franqois; Pakhomova, Svetlana; Singdahl-Larsen, Cecilie; Andersen, Jesper Harbo; Murray, Ciaran Joseph (NIVA-rapport;7524, Research report, 2020)
      The EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive require that EU Member States establish appropriate strategies and sampling programmes for microplastic in the marine environment. We report the results of a two-tiered pilot study ...
    • 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)” ...
    • Plastic recycling plant as a point source of microplastics to sediment and macroinvertebrates in a remote stream 

      Kallenbach, Emilie; Eriksen, Tor Erik; Hurley, Rachel; Jacobsen, Dean; Singdahl-Larsen, Cecilie; Friberg, Nikolai (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Microplastic is now ubiquitous in freshwater, sediment and biota, globally. This is as a consequence of inputs from, for example, waste mismanagement, effluents from wastewater treatment plants and surface runoff from ...
    • Understanding the occurrence and fate of microplastics in coastal Arctic ecosystems: The case of surface waters, sediments and walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) 

      Carlsson, Pernilla; Singdahl-Larsen, Cecilie; Lusher, Amy L. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The Arctic ecosystem receives contaminants transported through complex environmental pathways – such as atmospheric, riverine and oceanographic transport, as well as local infrastructure. A holistic approach is required ...