Anthropogenic Debris in Three Sympatric Seal Species of The Western Antarctic Peninsula

February 2024, article in a peer-reviewed journal
Science of The Total Environment

Julieta D. Cebuhar, Javier Negrete, Lucas S. Rodríguez Pirani, A. Lorena Picone, Maira Proietti, Rosana M. Romano, Carlos O. Della Védova, Ricardo Casaux, Eduardo R. Secchi and Silvina Botta

Wind- and rain-driven macroplastic mobilization and transport on land

February 2024, article in a peer-reviewed journal
Scientific Reports

Yvette A. M. Mellink, Tim H. M. van Emmerik and Thomas Mani

Hyperspectral reflectance of pristine, ocean weathered and biofouled plastics from a dry to wet and submerged state

December 2023, article in a peer-reviewed journal
Earth Systems Science Data

Robin V.F. de Vries, Shungudzemwoyo P. Garaba and Sarah-Jeanne Royer

Legacy oceanic plastic pollution must be addressed to mitigate possible long-term ecological impacts

November 2023, article in a peer-reviewed journal
Microplastics and Nanoplastics

Camille Richon, Karin Kvale, Laurent Lebreton and Matthias Egger

On the Digital Twin of the Ocean Cleanup Systems—Part I: Calibration of the Drag Coefficients of a Netted Screen in OrcaFlex Using CFD and Full-Scale Experiments

October 2023, article in a peer-reviewed journal
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Martin Alejandro Gonzalez Jimenez, Andriarimina Daniel Rakotonirina, Bruno Sainte-Rose and David James Cox

Large floating abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) is frequent marine pollution in the Hawaiian Islands and Palmyra Atoll

November 2023, article in a peer-reviewed journal
Marine Pollution Bulletin

Sarah-Jeanne Royer, Raquel N. Corniuk, Andrew McWhirter, Harry W. Lynch IV, Kydd Pollock, Kevin O'Brien, Lauriane Escalle, Katherine A. Stevens, Gala Moreno and Jennifer M. Lynch

Do loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) gut contents reflect the types, colors and sources of plastic pollution in the Southwest Indian Ocean?

September 2023, article in a peer-reviewed journal
Marine Pollution Bulletin

Margot Thibault, Ludovic Hoarau, Laurent Lebreton, Matthieu Le Corre, Mathieu Barret, Emmanuel Cordier, Stéphane Ciccione, Sarah-Jeanne Royer, Alexandra Ter Halle , Aina Ramanampamonjy, Claire Jean and Mayeul Dalleau

Extent and reproduction of coastal species on plastic debris in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

April 2023, article in a peer-reviewed journal
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Linsey E. Haram, James T. Carlton, Luca Centurioni, Henry Choong, Brendan Cornwell, Mary Crowley, Matthias Egger, Jan Hafner, Verena Hormann, Laurent Lebreton, Nikolai Maximenko, Megan McCuller, Cathryn Murray, Jenny Par, Andrey Shcherbina, Cynthia Wright and Gregory M. Ruiz

Understanding the interactions between cephalopods and marine litter: a research evaluation with identification of gaps and future perspectives

March 2023, article in peer-reviewed journal
Marine Pollution Bulletin

Tainah B.N. Freitas, Tatiana S. Leite, Bruna de Ramos and Maíra C. Proietti

Pelagic microplastics in the North Pacific subtropical gyre: a prevalent anthropogenic component of the particulate organic carbon pool

March 2023, article in peer-reviewed journal
PNAS Nexus

Shiye Zhao, Tracy J Mincer, Laurent Lebreton and Matthias Egger

Gaining new insights into macroplastic transport ‘hotlines’ and fine-scale retention-remobilisation using small floating high-resolution satellite drifters in the Chao Phraya River estuary of Bangkok

January 2023, article in peer-reviewed journal
Environmental Pollution

Thomas Mani , Yotwadee Hawangchu, Pummarin Khamdahsag, Jenyuk Lohwacharin, Doungkamon Phihusut, Isara Arsiranant, Chalatip Junchompoo and Ratchanon Piemjaiswang

Plastic Photodegradation Under Simulated Marine Conditions

January 2023, Article in peer-reviewed journal
Marine Pollution Bulletin

Annalisa Delre, Maaike Goudriaan, Victor Hernando Morales, Annika Vaksmaa, Rachel Tintswalo Ndhlovu, Marianne Baas, Edwin Keijzer, Tim de Groot, Emna Zeghal, Matthias Egger, Thomas Rockmann and Helge Niemann

Airborne Spectral Reflectance Dataset of Submerged Plastic Targets in a Coastal Environment

January 2023, article in a peer-reviewed journal
Data Journal

Apostolos Papakonstantinou, Argyrios Moustakas, Polychronis Kolokoussis, Dimitris Papageorgiou, Robin de Vries and Konstantinos Topouzelis

Persistency and Surface Convergence Evidenced by Two Maker Buoys in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

January 2023, Article in peer-reviewed journal
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Bruno Sainte-Rose, Yannick Pham and Wayne Pavalko

The Status and Fate of Oceanic Garbage Patches

November 2022, Comment article
Nature Reviews, Earth and Environment

Laurent Lebreton

Industrialised Fishing Nations Largely Contribute to Floating Plastic Pollution in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

September 2022, Article in peer-reviewed journal
Scientific Reports

Laurent Lebreton, Sarah‑Jeanne Royer, Axel Peytavin, Wouter Jan Strietman, Ingeborg Smeding‑Zuurendonk and Matthias Egger

Pelagic distribution of plastic debris (> 500 µm) and marine organisms in the upper layer of the North Atlantic Ocean

August 2022, article in peer-reviewed journal
Scientific Reports

Matthias Egger, Britte Schilt, Helen Wolter, Thomas Mani, Robin de Vries, Erik Zettler and Helge Niemann

Microbial communities on plastic particles in surface waters differ from subsurface waters of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

August 2022, Article in peer-reviewed journal
Marine Pollution Bulletin

Annika Vaksmaa, Matthias Egger, Claudia Lüke, Paula Dalcin Martins, RiccardoRosselli , Alejandro Abdala Asbuna and Helge Niemann

Size Dependent Transport of Floating Plastics Modeled in the Global Ocean

July 2022, article in peer-reviewed journal
Frontiers in Marine Science

Doug Klink, Alex Peytavin and Laurent Lebreton

Plastics in Freshwater Bodies

April 2022, Chapter in Scientific Book
Plastics and the Ocean: Origin, Characterization, Fate, and Impacts

Laurent Lebreton, Merel Kooi, Thomas Mani, Tim van Emmerik, Helen Wolter, Mine B. Tekman, Svenja M. Mintenig and Anthony L. Andrady

Integrating Bayesian Belief Networks in a Toolbox for Decision Support on Plastic Clean-up Technologies in Rivers and Estuaries

December 2021, Article in peer-reviewed journal
Environmental Pollution

Giulia Leone, Ana I. Catarinoa, Ine Pauwels, Thomas Mani, Michelle Tishler, Matthias Egger, Marie Anne Eurie Forio, Peter L.M. Goethals and Gert Everaert

Microplastics in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica): A Forensic Approach for Discrimination between Environmental and Vessel-Induced Microplastics

November 2021, article in peer-reviewed journal
Environmental Science and Technology

Clara Leistenschneider, Patricia Burkhardt-Holm, Thomas Mani, Sebastian Primpke, Heidi Taubner and Gunnar Gerdts

Detecting the Great Pacific Garbage Patch floating plastic litter using WorldView-3 satellite imagery

October 2021, article in a peer-reviewed journal
Optics Express

Young-Je Park, Shungudzemwoyo P. Garaba and Bruno Sainte-Rose

Quantifying Floating Plastic Debris at Sea Using Vessel-Based Optical Data and Artificial Intelligence

August 2021, article in peer-reviewed journal
Remote Sensing

Robin de Vries, Matthias Egger, Thomas Mani and Laurent Lebreton

Microplastics and Anthropogenic Fibre Concentrations in Lakes Reflect Surrounding Land Use

September 2021, Article in peer-reviewed journal
PLOS Biology

Andrew J. Tanentzap, Samuel Cottingham, Jérémy Fonvielle, Isobel Riley, Lucy M. Walker, Samuel G. Woodman, Danai Kontou, Christian M. Pichler, Erwin Reisner and Laurent Lebreton

Ocean Plastic Assimilator v0.2: assimilation of plastic concentration data into Lagrangian dispersion models

July 2021, article in a peer-reviewed journal
European Geosciences Union

Axel Peytavin, Bruno Sainte-Rose, Gael Forget and Jean-Michel Campin

An Inshore–Offshore Sorting System Revealed from Global Classification of Ocean Litter

10 June 2021, Article in peer-reviewed journal
Nature Sustainability

Carmen Morales-Caselles, Josué Viejo, Elisa Martí, Daniel González-Fernández, Hannah Pragnell-Raasch, J. Ignacio González-Gordillo, Enrique Montero, Gonzalo M. Arroyo, Georg Hanke, Vanessa S. Salvo, Oihane C. Basurko, Nicholas Mallos, Laurent Lebreton, Fidel Echevarría, Tim van Emmerik, Carlos M. Duarte, José A. Gálvez, Erik van Sebille, François Galgani, Carlos M. García, Peter S. Ross, Ana Bartual, Christos Ioakeimidis, Gorka Markalain, Atsuhiko Isobe and Andrés Cózar

Relative Abundance of Floating Plastic Debris and Neuston in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean

June 2021, Article in peer-reviewed journal
Frontiers in Marine Science

Matthias Egger, Lauren Quiros, Giulia Leone, Francesco Ferrari, Christiana M. Boeger and Michelle Tischler

More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean

April 2021, article in peer-reviewed journal
Science Advances

Lourens J.J. Meijer, Tim van Emmerik, Ruud van der Ent, Christian Schmidt and Laurent Lebreton

Coastal Garbage Patches: Fronts Accumulate Plastic Films at Ashmore Reef Marine Park (Pulau Pasir), Australia

Article in peer-reviewed journal
April 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science

Sara Hajbane, Bruna Calmanovici, Julia Reisser, Adam Jolly, Vyvyan Summers, Francesco Ferrari, Anas Ghadouani and Charitha Pattiaratchi

A Spatially Variable Scarcity of Floating Microplastics in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean

Environmental research letter
November 2020, IOP Science

Matthias Egger, Rein Nijhof, Laurent Quiros, Giulia Leone, Sarah-Jeanne Royer, Andrew C McWhirter, Gennady A Kantakov, Vladimir I Radchenko, Evgeny A Pakhomov and Brian P V Hunt

Concentration, Anisotropic and Apparent Colour Effects on Optical Reflectance Properties of Virgin and Ocean-harvested Plastics

Article in peer-reviewed journal
October 2020, Science Direct

Shungudzemwoyo P.Garaba, Manuel Arias, Paolo Corradi, Tristan Harmel, Robin de Vries and Laurent Lebreton

Manila River Mouths Act as Temporary Sinks for Macroplastic Pollution

Article in peer-reviewed journal
October 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science

Tim van Emmerik, Justin van Klaveren, Lourens J. J. Meijer, Joost W. Krooshof, Dixie Ann A. Palmos and Maria Antonia Tanchuling

Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution

Article in peer-reviewed journal
September 2020, Science

Stephanie B. Borrelle , Jeremy Ringma, Kara Lavender Law, Cole C. Monnahan, Laurent Lebreton, Alexis McGivern, Erin Murphy, Jenna Jambeck, George H. Leonard, Michelle A. Hilleary, Marcus Eriksen, Hugh P. Possingham, Hannah De Frond, Leah R. Gerber, Beth Polidoro, Akbar Tahir, Miranda Bernard, Nicholas Mallos, Megan Barnes and Chelsea M. Rochman

Automated River Plastic Monitoring Using Deep Learning and Cameras

Article in peer-reviewed journal
July 2020, Earth and Space Science

Colin van Lieshout, Kees van Oeveren, Tim van Emmerik and Eric Postma

First evidence of plastic fallout from the North Pacific Garbage Patch

Article in peer-reviewed journal
May 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials

Matthias Egger, Fatimah Sulu-Gambari and Laurent Lebreton

The Physical Oceanography of the Transport of Floating Marine Debris

Topical review
February 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Erik van Sebille, Stefano Aliani, Kara Lavender Law, Nikolai Maximenko, José M Alsina, Andrei Bagaev, Melanie Bergmann, Bertrand Chapron, Irina Chubarenko, Andrés Cózar, Philippe Delandmeter, Matthias Egger, Baylor Fox-Kemper, Shungudzemwoyo P Garaba, Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy, Britta Denise Hardesty, Matthew J Hoffman, Atsuhiko Isobe, Cleo E Jongedijk, Mikael L A Kaandorp, Liliya Khatmullina, Albert A Koelmans, Tobias Kukulka, Charlotte Laufkötter, Laurent Lebreton, Delphine Lobelle, Christophe Maes, Victor Martinez-Vicente, Miguel Angel Morales Maqueda, Marie Poulain-Zarcos, Ernesto Rodríguez, Peter G Ryan, Alan L Shanks, Won Joon Shim, Giuseppe Suaria, Martin Thiel, Ton S van den Bremer and David Wichmann

Rapid Assessment of Floating Macroplastic Transport in the Rhine

Brief research report article
January 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science

Paul Vriend, Caroline van Calcar, Merel Kooi, Harm Landman, Remco Pikaar and Tim van Emmerik

Abundance of Plastic Debris Across European and Asian Rivers

Letter in peer-reviewed journal
December 2019, Environmental Research Letters

C J van Calcar and T H M van Emmerik

Seine Plastic Debris Transport Tenfolded During Increased River Discharge

Article in peer-reviewed journal
October 2019, Frontiers in Marine Science

Tim van Emmerik, Romain Tramoy, Caroline van Calcar, Soline Alligant, Robin Treilles, Bruno Tassin and Johnny Gasper

Marine Debris Polymers on Main Hawaiian Island Beaches, Sea Surface, and Seafloor

Article in peer-reviewed journal
October 2019, Environmental Science & Technology

Kayla C. Brignac, Melissa R. Jung, Cheryl King, Sarah-Jeanne Royer, Lauren Blickley, Megan R. Lamson, James T. Potemra and Jennifer M. Lynch

The Technological Challenges of Dealing With Plastics in the Environment

Scientific Commentary
October 2019, Marine Technology Society Journal

Sarah-Jeanne Royer and Dimitri D. Deheyn

Seasonality of Riverine Macroplastic Transport

Article in peer-reviewed journal
September 2019, Scientific Reports

Tim van Emmerik, Emily Strada, Thuy-Chung Kieu-Le, Luan Nguyen and Nicolas Gratiot

A Global Mass Budget for Positively Buoyant Macroplastic Debris in the Ocean

Article in peer-reviewed journal
September 2019, Scientific Reports

Laurent Lebreton, Matthias Egger and Boyan Slat

Riverine Plastic Litter Monitoring Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Article in peer-reviewed journal
August 2019, Remote Sensing

Marlein Geraeds, Tim van Emmerik, Robin de Vries and Mohd Shahrizal bin Ab Razak

Toward the Integrated Marine Debris Observing System

Article in peer-reviewed journal
August 2019, Frontiers in Marine Science

Nikolai Maximenko, Paolo Corradi, Kara Lavender Law, Erik Van Sebille, Shungudzemwoyo P. Garaba, Richard Stephen Lampitt, Francois Galgani, Victor Martinez-Vicente, Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy, Joana Mira Veiga, Richard C. Thompson, Christophe Maes, Delwyn Moller, Carolin Regina Löscher, Anna Maria Addamo, Megan Rose Lamson, Luca R Centurioni, Nicole Rita Posth, Rick Lumpkin, Matteo Vinci, Ana Maria Martins, Catharina Diogo Pieper, Atsuhiko Isobe, Georg Hanke, Margo Edwards, Irina P. Chubarenko, Ernesto Rodriguez, Stefano Aliani, Manuel Arias, Gregory P. Asner, Alberto Brosich, James T. Carlton, Yi Chao, Anna-Marie Cook, Andrew B. Cundy, Tamara S. Galloway, Alessandra Giorgetti, Gustavo Jorge Goni, Yann Guichoux, Linsey E. Haram, Britta Denise Hardesty, Neil Holdsworth, Laurent Lebreton, Heather A. Leslie, Ilan Macadam-Somer, Thomas Mace, Mark Manuel, Robert Marsh, Elodie Martinez, Daniel J. Mayor, Morgan Le Moigne, Maria Eugenia Molina Jack, Matt Charles Mowlem, Rachel W. Obbard, Katsiaryna Pabortsava, Bill Robberson, Amelia-Elena Rotaru, Gregory M. Ruiz, Maria Teresa Spedicato, Martin Thiel, Alexander Turra and Chris Wilcox

Riverine Plastic Emission from Jakarta into the Ocean

Article in peer-reviewed journal
July 2019, Environmental Research Letters

Tim van Emmerik, Michelle Loozen, Kees van Oeveren, Frans Buschman and Geert Prinsen

Cetacean Sightings within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Scientific note
April 2019, Marine Biodiversity

Susan E. Gibbs, Chandra P. Salgado Kent, Boyan Slat, Damien Morales, Leila Fouda and Julia Reisser

Future Scenarios of Global Plastic Waste Generation and Disposal

Article in peer reviewed journal
January 2019, Nature, Palgrave Communications

Laurent Lebreton and Anthony Andrady

A Methodology to Characterize Riverine Macroplastic Emission Into the Ocean

Article in peer-reviewed journal
October 2018, Frontiers in Marine Science

Tim van Emmerik, Thuy-Chung Kieu-Le, Michelle Loozen, Kees van Oeveren, Emilie Strady, Xuan-Thanh Bui, Matthias Egger, Johnny Gasperi, Laurent Lebreton, Phuoc-Dan Nguyen, Anna Schwarz, Boyan Slat and Bruno Tassin

Sensing Ocean Plastics with an Airborne Hyperspectral Shortwave IR Imager

Article in peer reviewed journal
September 2018, Environmental Science & Technologys

Shungudzemwoyo P. Garaba, Jen Aitken, Boyan Slat, Heidi M. Dierssen, Laurent Lebreton, Oliver Zielinski and Julia Reisser

Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is Rapidly Accumulating Plastic

Article in peer reviewed journal
March 2018, Scientific Reports

Laurent CM Lebreton, Boyan Slat, Francesco Ferrari, Bruno Sainte-Rose, Jen Aitken, Bob Marthouse, Sara Hajbane, Serena Cunsolo, Anna Schwarz, Aurore Levivier, Kim Noble, Pavla Debeljak, Hanna Maral, Rosanna Schoeneich-Argent, Roberto Brambini and Julia Reisser

Pollutants in Plastics within the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

Article in peer reviewed journal
December 2017, Environmental Science & Technology

Qiqing Chen, Julia Reisser, Serena Cunsolo, Christiaan Kwadijk, Michiel Kotterman, Maira Proietti, Boyan Slat, Francesco F. Ferrari, Anna Schwarz, Aurore Levivier, Daqiang Yin, Henner Hollert and Albert A. Koelmans

Quantification of Medium and Large Debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Using Visual Observations from Aerial Surveys

Technical Report
September 24, 2017

Salgado Kent C, Reisser J, Gibbs SE, Fouda L, Morales D and Kniest H

River Plastic Emissions to the World’s Oceans

Article in peer reviewed journal
June 2017, Nature Communications

Laurent C. M. Lebreton, Joost van der Zwet, Jan-Willem Damsteeg, Boyan Slat, Anthony Andrady and Julia Reisser

Using Numerical Model Simulations to Improve the Understanding of Micro-plastic Distribution and Pathways in the Marine Environment

Article in peer reviewed journal
January 2017, Frontiers Marine Sciences

Britta D. Hardesty, Joseph Harari, Atsuhiko Isobe, Laurent Lebreton, Nikolai Maximenko, James T. Potemra, Erik van Sebille, Dick Vethaak and Chris Wilcox

Extracting DNA from ocean microplastics: a method comparison study

Article in peer reviewed journal
November 2016, Analytical Methods 9

Pavla Debeljak, Maria Pinto, Julia Reisser, Francesco F. Ferrari, Ben Abbas, Mark C. M. van Loosdrecht, Boyan Slat and Gerhard J. Herndl

The Effect of Particle Properties on the Depth Profile of Buoyant Plastics in the Ocean

Article in peer-reviewed journal
October 2016, Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 33882

Merel Kooi, Julia Reisser, Boyan Slat, Francesco F. Ferrari, Moritz S. Schmid, Serena Cunsolo, Roberto Brambini, Kimberly Noble, Lys-Anne Sirks, Theo E. W. Linders, Rosanna I. Schoeneich-Argent and Albert A. Koelmans

The Vertical Distribution of Buoyant Plastics at Sea

Article in peer-reviewed journal
February 2015, Biogeosciences 12

Julia Reisser, Boyan Slat, Kim Noble, K. du Plessis, Meredith Epp, Maira Proietti, Jan de Sonneville, Thomas Becker and Charitha Pattiaratchi

Hydrodynamics and Capture Efficiency of Plastic Cleanup Booms: Part 1, Experiments and Dynamic Analysis

Conference with peer-reviewed proceedings
February 2017, ASME International Conference on Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engineering

Roberto Brambini, Benedicte Dommergues, Hannah Maral and Bruno Sainte-Rose

Hydrodynamics and Capture Efficiency of Plastic Cleanup Booms: Part II, 2D Vertical Capture Efficiency and CFD Validation

Conference with peer reviewed proceedings
February 2017, ASME International Conference on Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engineering

Benedicte Dommergues, Roberto Brambini, Rene Mettler, Zaki Abiza and Bruno Sainte-Rose

Multi-scale Numerical Analysis of the Field Efficiency of an Ocean Plastic Cleanup Array

Conference with peer-reviewed proceedings
June 2016, ASME International Conference on Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engineering

Bruno Sainte-Rose, Laurent Lebreton, Joao Lima Rego, Frank Kleissen and Julia Reisser

Modelling Floating Plastic Origin, Transport and Accumulation in the World’s Ocean

Conference presentation
March 2017, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography

Laurent C. M. Lebreton, Julia Reisser and Bruno Sainte-Rose

Challenges in modelling detailed surface circulation on the Korea / Tsushima Strait

Conference presentation
February 2016, Ocean Sciences Meeting

Joao Lima Rego, Firmin Zijl, Bruno Sainte-Rose, Frank Kleissen and Wouter Kranenbourg

How the oceans can clean themselves: a feasibility study

Independently published book
June 2014, The Ocean Cleanup

Boyan Slat et al.