MICRO 2016: Fate and Impact of Microplastics in Marine Ecosystems

<p>Part I: Abstracts from Oral Presentations</p> <p>Plastic and Restricted Heavy Metals</p> <p>Citizen Research for Ocean Conservation</p> <p>Microplastics in Sewage Sludge: Effects of Treatment</p> <p>Sources and Fate of Microplastics in Swiss Surface Waters</p> <p>Microplastics in a UK Sewage Treatment Plant</p> <p>Fates of Plastic Pollution in a Major Urban River: Persistence and Bacterial Colonization of Oil-based Plastics and Bioplastics in the Yarra River, Melbourne, Australia</p> <p>Presence and Abundance of Microplastics in Sediments of Tributaries of the River Thames, UK</p> <p>Microplastics in Different Compartments of the Urban Water Cycle: From the Sources to the Rivers</p> <p>Validation of a Density Separation Technique for the Recovery of Microplastics and Its Use on Marine Freshwater Sediments</p> <p>Microplastics in Singapore’s Coastal Mangrove Ecosystems</p> <p>A Quantitative Analysis of Microplastic Pollution Along the South-eastern Coastline of South Africa</p> <p>Plastic Pollutants Within the Marine Environment of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa</p> <p>Reading Between the Grains – Microplastics in Intertidal Beach Sediments of a World Heritage Area: Cleveland Bay (QLD), Australia</p> <p>Patterns of Plastic Pollution in Offshore, Nearshore, and Estuarine Waters of Perth, Western Australia</p> <p>Microplastics in Israeli Mediterranean Coastal Waters</p> <p>Occurrence of Microplastics in the South Eastern Black Sea</p> <p>Microplastics Migrations in Sea Coastal Zone: Baltic Amber as an Example</p> <p>Simultaneous Trace Analysis of Nine Common Plastics in Environmental Samples via Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (Py-GCMS)</p> <p>Extensive Review on the Presence of Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Seafood: Data Gaps and Recommendations for Future Risk Assessment for Human Health</p> <p>State of Knowledge on Human Health Implications on Consumption of Aquatic Organisms Containing Microplastics</p> <p>Effects of PVC and Nylon Microplastics on Survival and Reproduction of the Small Terrestrial Earthworm Enchytraeus crypticus</p> <p>Microplastics: Who Is at Risk?</p> <p>Understanding Microplastic Distribution: A Global Citizen Monitoring Effort</p> <p>Marine Litter in the North Sea: Experiences With Monitoring</p> <p>Voluntary Beach Cleanups at Famara Beach, Lanzarote—Fighting Marine Litter Invasion and Accumulation Locally</p> <p>The Wider Benefits of Cleaning Up Marine Plastic: Examining the Direct Impacts of Beach Cleans on the Volunteers</p> <p>“Agüita con el Plástico”: Society as Part of the Solution of Plastic Pollution</p> <p>No Plastic Campaign Makes a Difference in Island of Principe Biosphere Reserve</p> <p>Logistics of Coastline Plastic Cleanup and Recycling: A Literature Review and Research Opportunities</p> <p>Tackling Microplastics on Land: Citizen Observatories of Anthropogenic Litter Dynamics Within the MSCA POSEIDOMM Project</p> <p>Environmental Science Education: Methodologies to Promote Ocean Literacy</p> <p>Microplastics, Convergence Areas, and Fin Whales in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea</p> <p>Microplastics in Marine Mesoherbivores</p> <p>Investigating the Presence and Effects of Microplastics in Sea Turtles</p> <p>Microplastics Presence in Sea Turtles</p> <p>Factors Determining the Composition of Plastics From the South Pacific Ocean—Are Seabirds Playing a Selective Role?</p> <p>Microplastics and Marine Mammals: Studies From Ireland</p> <p>Primary (Ingestion) and Secondary (Inhalation) Uptake of Microplastic in the Crab Carcinus maenas, and Its Biological Effects</p> <p>Plastic in Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) From the Norwegian Coast</p> <p>Extraction and Characterization of Microplastics in Marine Organisms Sampled at Giglio Island After the Removal of the Costa Concordia Wreck</p> <p>Floating Plastic Marine Debris in the Balearic Islands: Ibiza Case Study</p> <p>Enzymes—Essential Catalysts in Biodegradation of Plastics</p> <p>Ireland’s Microplastics: Distribution in the Environment and Interactions With Marine Organisms</p> <p>Deposition of Microplastics in Marine Sediments From the Irish Continental Shelf</p> <p>Where Go the Plastics? And Whence Do They Come? From Diagnosis to Participatory Community-Based Observatory Network</p> <p>Distribution and Composition of Microplastics in Scotland’s Seas</p> <p>Marine Litter Accumulation in the Azorean Archipelago: Azorlit Preliminary Data</p> <p>Microplastics in the Adriatic—Results from the DeFishGear Project</p> <p>Floating Microplastics in the South Adriatic Sea</p> <p>Implementation of the Spanish Monitoring Program of Microplastics on Beaches Within the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. First Phase</p> <p>Operational Forecasting as a Tool for Managing Pollutant Dispersion and Recovery</p> <p>What Do We Know About the Ecological Impacts of Microplastic Debris?</p> <p>Qualitative and Quantitative Investigations of Microplastics in Pelagic and Demersal Fish Species of the North and Baltic Sea Using Pyrolysis-GCMS: A Pilot Study</p> <p>Microplastics Extraction Methods for Small Fishes, on the Road to a Standard Monitoring Approach</p> <p>Microplastic Effects in Mullus surmuletus: Ingestion and Induction of Detoxification Systems</p> <p>Assessment of Microplastics Present in Mussels Collected From the Scottish Coast</p> <p>Bioavailability of Co-contaminants Sorbed to Microplastics in the Blue Mussel Mytilus edulis</p> <p>Exploring the Effects of Microplastics on the Hepatopancreas Transcriptome of Mytilus galloprovincialis</p> <p>Characterization, Quantity, and Sorptive Properties of Microplastics Extracted From Cosmetics</p> <p>Beach Sweep Initiatives on the Acadian Coastline in Atlantic Canada</p> <p>A Social-Ecological Approach to the Problem of Floating Plastics in the Mediterranean Sea</p> <p>News Splash? A Preliminary Review of Microplastics in the News</p> <p>Informing Policy Makers About State of Knowledge and Gaps on Microplastics in the Marine Environment</p> <p>Microplastics in Cosmetics: Exploring Perceptions of Environmentalists, Beauticians, and Students</p> <p>Plastics and Zooplankton: What Do We Know?</p> <p>Microtrophic Project</p> <p>Source to Sink: Microplastics Ingested by Benthic Fauna From Discharge Points to Deep Basins in an Urban Model Fjord</p> <p>Uptake and Toxicity of Methylmethacrylate-Based Nanoplastic Particles in Aquatic Organisms</p> <p>On the Potential Role of Phytoplankton Aggregates in Microplastic Sedimentation</p> <p>Hitchhiking Microorganisms on Microplastics in the Baltic Sea</p> <p>Microplastic Prey? An Assay to Investigate Microplastic Uptake by Heterotrophic Nanoflagellates</p> <p>Microplastics in Seafood: Identifying a Protocol for Their Extraction and Characterization</p> <p>Vast Quantities of Microplastics in Arctic Sea Ice—A Prime Temporary Sink for Plastic Litter and a Medium of Transport</p> <p>Microplastics in the Bay of Brest (Brittany, France): Composition, Abundance, and Spatial Distribution</p> <p>Plastic Litter: A New Habitat for Marine Microbial Communities</p> <p>The Effects of Microplastic on Freshwater Hydra attenuatta Morphology and Feeding</p> <p>Evidence of Microplastic Ingestion in Elasmobranchs in the Western Mediterranean Sea</p> <p>Do Microplastic Particles Impair the Performance of Marine Deposit and Filter Feeding Invertebrates? Results From a Globally Replicated Study</p> <p>Occurrence of Potential Microplastics in Commercial Fish From an Estuarine Environment: Preliminary Results</p> <p>Improvements and Needs of Microplastics Analytical Control at Open Sea Opportunities for Monitoring at Canary Islands</p> <p>A Novel Method for Preparing Microplastic Fibers</p> <p>A New Approach in Separating Microplastics From Freshwater Suspended Particulate Matter</p> <p>Microplastics—Microalgae: An Interaction Dependent on Polymer Type</p> <p>Nearshore Circulation in the Confital Bay: Implications on Marine Debris Transport and Deposition at Las Canteras Beach</p> <p>New Approaches for the Extraction and Identification of Microplastics From Marine Sediment</p> <p>Using Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Floating Microplastics to Investigate Their Weathering History</p> <p>The Size Spectrum as Tool for Analyzing Marine Plastic Pollution</p> <p>Automated Analysis of µFTIR Imaging Data for Microplastic Samples</p> <p>Solar Radiation Induced Degradation of Common Plastics Under Marine Exposure Conditions</p> <p>Using the FlowCam to Validate an Enzymatic Digestion Protocol Applied to Assess the Occurrence of Microplastics in the Southern North Sea</p> <p>DNA From the “Plastisphere”: An Extraction Protocol for Ocean Microplastics</p> <p>Quality Assurance in Microplastic Detection</p></section> <p>Part II: Abstracts from Posters</p> <p>Are the Sinking Velocities of Microplastics Altered Following Interactions With Austrominius modestus and Sediment Particles?</p> <p>Macro- and Microplastic in Seafloor Habitats Around Mallorca</p> <p>Evaluation of Microplastics in Jurujuba Cove, Niterói, RJ, Brazil</p> <p>Presence, Distribution, and Characterization of Microplastics in Commercial Organisms From Adriatic Sea</p> <p>The Origin and Fate of Microplastics in Saltmarshes</p> <p>Effects of Microplastics and Mercury, Alone and in Mixture, on the European Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax): Swimming Performance and Subindividual Biomarkers</p> <p>DNA Damage Evaluation of Polyethylene Microspheres in Daphnia magna</p> <p>LITTERBASE: An Online Portal for Marine Litter and Microplastics and Their Implications for Marine Life</p> <p>PLASTOX: Direct and Indirect Ecotoxicological Impacts of Microplastics on Marine Organisms</p> <p>Community-Based Observatories Tackling MICROPLASTIC: Spanish Schools Pilot Project Based on seawatchers.org</p> <p>Tackling Marine Litter: Awareness and Outreach in the Azores</p> <p>Prevalence of Microplastics in the Marine Waters of Qatar’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)</p> <p>Microplastics Contamination in Three Planktivorous and Commercial Fish Species</p> <p>Spatial Variation of Microplastic Ingestion in Boops boops in the Western Mediterranean Sea</p> <p>Source, Transfer, and Fate of Microplastics in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea: A Holistic Approach</p> <p>Microplastics in the Final Ocean Frontier</p> <p>Microplastic Abundance and Distribution in the Intertidal and Subtidal Marine Environment Around a Major Urban Park in Vancouver, Canada</p> <p>Microplastic Ingestion by Decapod Larvae</p> <p>May Polystyrene Microparticles Affect Mortality and Swimming Behaviour of Marine Planktonic Invertebrates?</p> <p>Improvement of Microplastic Extraction Method in Organic Material Rich Samples</p> <p>Defining the Baselines and Standards for Microplastics Analyses in European Waters (JPI-O BASEMAN)</p> <p>Effects of Long-Term Exposure With Contaminated and Clean Microplastics on Mytilus edulis</p> <p>The City of Kuopio and Lake Kallavesi in the Finnish Lake District—A “Living Laboratory” for the Microplastic Pollution Research in Freshwater Lakes</p> <p>Analysis and Quantification of Microplastics in the Stomachs of Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) Stranded on the Galician Coasts (NW Spain)</p> <p>First Report of Microplastic in Bycaught Pinnipeds</p> <p>The Contribution of Citizen Scientists to the Monitoring of Marine Litter</p> <p>Experimenting on Settling Velocity of Cylindrical Microplastic Particles</p> <p>WEATHER-MIC—How Microplastic Weathering Changes Its Transport, Fate, and Toxicity in the Marine Environment</p> <p>Uptake of Textile Polyethylene Terephthalate Microplastic Fibers by Freshwater Crustacean Daphnia magna</p> <p>Microplastics Deposited on Two Beaches of the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean Sea): Study of the Spatial Heterogeneity</p> <p>Effects of Microplastics on Digestive Enzymes in the Marine Isopod Idotea emarginata</p> <p>Sinking Behavior of Microplastics</p> <p>Pilot Study on Microlitter in the Surface Waters of the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea</p> <p>Persistent Organic Pollutants Adsorbed on Microplastics From the North Atlantic Gyre</p> <p>First Evidence of Microplastics in the Ballast Water of Commercial Ships</p> <p>Microlitter Abundance in the Italian Minor Islands, Central Mediterranean Sea</p> <p>In Search of the Plastic Accumulation Regions: Finetuning Ocean Surface Transport Models</p> <p>Preliminary Assessment of the Microplastic Presence in the Gulf of Genoa (Italy, Ligurian Sea, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea)</p> <p>Toxicity Assessment of Pollutants Sorbed on Microplastics Using Various Bioassays on Two Fish Cell Lines</p> <p>Fate of Microplastics in Soft Marine Sediments</p> <p>Microplastic as a Vector of Chemicals to Fin Whale and Basking Shark in the Mediterranean Sea: A Model-Supported Analysis of Available Data</p> <p>Methodological Prerequisites For Toxicity Testing of Microplastics Using Marine Organisms</p> <p>POPs Adsorbed on Plastic Pellets Collected in the Adriatic Region</p> <p>The EPHEMARE Project: Ecotoxicological Effects of Microplastics in Marine Ecosystems</p> <p>Suspended Microsized PVC Particles Impair the Performance and Decrease Survival in the Asian Green Mussel Perna viridis</p> <p>Priority Pollutants in Microplastics From Beaches in Gran Canaria Island</p> <p>Plastic Debris in Mediterranean Seabirds</p> <p>Monitoring Plastic Ingestion in Selected Azorean Marine Organisms</p> <p>Catching a Glimpse of the Lack of Harmonization Regarding Techniques of Extraction of Microplastics in Marine Sediments</p> <p>Floating Plastics in the Sea: People’s Perception in the Majorca Island (Spain)</p> <p>Plastics in the Mediterranean Sea Surface: From Regional to Local Scale</p> <p>Analysis of Organic Pollutants in Microplastics</p> <p>From the Sea to the Dining Table and Back to the Environment: Microlitter Load of Common Salts</p> <p>Sandy Beaches Microplastics of the Crimea Black Sea Coast</p> <p>Plastic Prey; Are Fish Postlarval Stages Ingesting Plastic in Their Natural Environment?</p> <p>Microplastic Ingestion by Planktivorous Fishes in the Canary Current</p> <p>First Quantification of Microplastic in Norwegian Fjords Through Nondisruptive Ad-hoc Sampling</p> <p>Abundance of Microplastics and Adhered Contaminants in the North Atlantic Ocean</p> <p>Microbes and Bioplastic</p> <p>Marine Litter Monitoring for Coastal Management Indicator System Development: Citizen Science and Collaboration Communication Approach</p> <p>Types and Concentration of Microplastics Found on Remote Island Beaches During the Race for Water Odyssey.</p> <p>A Throwaway Society: Is Science Stuck With Single Use Plastic? What Can We Do About It?</p> <p>Linking Education and Science to Increase Awareness of Marine Plastic Litter—Distribution of Plastic Waste on Beaches of the German Bight</p> <p>Are Smaller Microplastics Underestimated? Comparing Anthropogenic Debris Collected With Different Mesh Sizes</p> <p>Precipitation/Flotation Effect of Coagulant to Microplastics in Water</p> <p>Personal Care and Cosmetics Products (PC-CPs): Is It Cleaning or Pollution?</p> <p>Detection of Microplastics with Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) Microscopy</p></section> <p>Part III: Lanzarote Declaration, June 21 2016</p> <p>Part III. Lanzarote Declaration, June 21 2016</p> <p>Lanzarote Declaration, June 21 2016</p></section> <p>Part IV: Breaking Down the Plastic Age</p> <p>Part IV. Breaking Down the Plastic Age</p> <p>Breaking Down the Plastic Age</p></section> <p>Part V: Where Next? The Road to Micro 2018 and Beyond</p> <p>Where Next? The Road to Micro 2018 and Beyond</p></section>