H074
Plastics in the Geosphere I

Wednesday, 9 December 2020: 17:30-18:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Tim H M van Emmerik, Wageningen University and Research Center, Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen, Netherlands
Conveners:  Monica M Arienzo, RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States, Jennifer D Drummond, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom and Sarah-Jeanne Royer, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, Honolulu, HI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tim H M van Emmerik, The Ocean Cleanup, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Chairs:  Tim H M van Emmerik, The Ocean Cleanup, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Monica M Arienzo, RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States, Jennifer D Drummond, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom and Sarah-Jeanne Royer, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, Honolulu, HI, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Monica M Arienzo, RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States
17:30
Coastal margins and backshores represent a major sink for marine debris: insights from a continental-scale analysis (Invited) (665055)
Arianna Olivelli1, Britta Denise Hardesty2 and Chris Wilcox2, (1)CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere Business Unit, Hobart, ARRAY(0xcfef79c), Australia, (2)CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere Business Unit, Hobart, Australia
17:34
NOAA NCEI Global Marine Microplastics Database Initiative (668283)
Ebenezer S Nyadjro, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States, Zhankun Wang, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Tim Boyer, NOAA/National Oceanographic Data Center, Washington, DC, United States, Scott L Cross, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, CCOG, Charleston, SC, United States and Just Cebrian, Mississippi State University, Northern Gulf Institute, Stennis Space Center, United States
17:38
Accumulation of mismanaged plastic waste in rivers across the globe (763438)
Jesus D Gomez-Velez, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States and Stefan Krause, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom
17:42
Plastic in Global Rivers: Are Floods Making it Worse? (705821)
Caspar Roebroek1, Shaun Harrigan2, Tim H M van Emmerik1, Calum Baugh2, Dirk Eilander3,4, Christel Prudhomme2 and Florian Pappenberger5, (1)Wageningen University and Research Center, Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (4)Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam, Netherlands, (5)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom
17:46
Concentration-Discharge Relationships of Plastic Pollutants in Streams (765255)
Win Cowger and Andrew B Gray, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
17:50
Effects of Monsoonal-driven Flood Dynamics on Plastic Transport in the Mekong River Floodplain around Phnom Penh, Cambodia (685056)
Charlotte Haberstroh and Mauricio Eduardo Arias, University of South Florida Tampa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tampa, FL, United States
17:54
Small rivers and streams as pathways for urban litter to the marine environment (776057)
Daniel González Fernández, University of Cadiz, Biology, Puerto Real, Spain and Joana Pereira de Brito, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
17:58
Microplastic transport processes in freshwater environment (709004)
Simona Francalanci, Enio Paris and Luca Solari, University of Florence, Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florence, Italy
18:02
Plastic Punch: Innovative Ways to Stimulate Societal Engagement in Marine Plastic Pollution (766463)
Richmond Kennedy Kennedy Quarcoo, Plastic Punch, Accra, Ghana, Paige Martin, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Madeline Foster-Martinez, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, United States
18:06
Microplastics in San Francisco Bay: Abundance, Transport, Fate, and Policy Recommendations (Invited) (664983)
Rebecca Sutton1, Meg Sedlak1, Diana Lin1, Alicia Gilbreath1, Ezra L Miller1, Carolynn Box2, Rusty C Holleman3, Xia Zhu4, Keenan Munno4 and Chelsea M Rochman5, (1)San Francisco Estuary Institute, Richmond, CA, United States, (2)5 Gyres, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of California at Davis, Center for Watershed Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, (4)University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, (5)University of Toronto, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Toronto, ON, Canada
18:10
Discussion
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