Plastics in the Southern Ocean

With the CCAMLR beach survey documenting plastics litter now for many years, and published reports of ingestion of plastics by a range of birds from petrels to albatross and penguins, there has already been a major attempt to report on the problem. The recent Greenpeace Antarctic cruise found microp...

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Published inAntarctic science Vol. 30; no. 5; p. 269
Main Authors Waller, Catherine L., Hughes, Kevin A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.10.2018
Subjects
Antarctic expeditions
Guest Editorial
Ingestion
Microplastics
Plastics
Polymers
Seabirds
Water analysis
Water sampling
Southern Hemisphere
Antarctica
Southern Ocean
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Summary:With the CCAMLR beach survey documenting plastics litter now for many years, and published reports of ingestion of plastics by a range of birds from petrels to albatross and penguins, there has already been a major attempt to report on the problem. The recent Greenpeace Antarctic cruise found microplastics in most of their limited number of water samples but the much more wide-ranging Antarctic Circumpolar Expedition of 2016–17 recorded microplastics in every surface sample taken all around the Antarctic, and even in remote locations like the Mertz Polynya. The cross disciplinary group will assess the occurrence, distribution, source and fates of plastics in the Southern Ocean and the impacts on physical environments and biological communities, co-ordinating with other groups like CCAMLR, IAATO and SCOR.
ISSN:0954-1020
1365-2079
DOI:10.1017/S0954102018000330