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A new small device made of glass for separating microplastics from marine and freshwater sediments.
Nakajima, Ryota; Tsuchiya, Masashi; Lindsay, Dhugal J.; Kitahashi, Tomo; Fujikura, Katsunori; Fukushima, Tomohiko (2019)Separating microplastics from marine and freshwater sediments is challenging, but necessary to determine their distribution, mass, and ecological impacts in benthic environments. Density separation is commonly used to ... -
Sediment sampling with a core sampler equipped with aluminum tubes and an onboard processing protocol to avoid plastic contamination
Tsuchiya, Masashi; Nomaki, Hidetaka; Kitahashi, Tomo; Nakajima, Ryota; Fujikura, Katsunori (2019)Microplastics are abundant even on the deep-sea floor far from land and the ocean surface where human activities take place. To obtain samples of microplastics from the deep-sea floor, a research vessel and suitable sampling ...