Combining citizen and conventional science for microplastics monitoring in the White Sea basin (Russian Arctic)

Validation of ATR FT-IR to identify polymers of plastic marine debris, including those ingested by marine organisms

Melissa R. Jung, F. David Horgen, Sara V. Orski et al. · Marine Pollution Bulletin · 2018 · 1.4K citations

Microplastics, Marine Organisms, Environmental Chemistry +15

White and wonderful? Microplastics prevail in snow from the Alps to the Arctic

Melanie Bergmann, Sophia Mützel, Sebastian Primpke et al. · Science Advances · 2019 · 1.3K citations · Full text

Microplastics in Arctic polar waters: the first reported values of particles in surface and sub-surface samples

Amy Lusher, Valentina Tirelli, Ian O’Connor et al. · Scientific Reports · 2015 · 1.1K citations · Full text

Engineering, Ocean Pollution, Oceanography +17

Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic

Ilka Peeken, Sebastian Primpke, Birte Beyer et al. · Nature Communications · 2018 · 1K citations · Full text

Microplastic pollution in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean: Validated and opportunistic sampling

Amy Lusher, Ann E. Burke, Ian O’Connor et al. · Marine Pollution Bulletin · 2014 · 646 citations

Microplastics, Northeast Atlantic Ocean, Engineering +8