Tag: microplastics
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2023 URI Charles and Marie Fish Lecture: Microplastics and the Ocean Race
Charles and Marie Fish Lecture with Ocean Race winning skipper Charlie Enright: November 2, 2023 I had the great pleasure to share preliminary results from the 2022-23 Ocean Race with URI colleagues and RI community members at this year’s Charles and Marie Fish Lecture at the University of Rhode Island. Winning Ocean Race skipper Charlie…
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Publication Alert!
I am very excited to announce that our study on the sedimentary storage of plastics in Narragansett Bay, RI has been published in Scientific Reports. This study involved some fun field work, methods development to find the most efficient and effective way to separate microplastics from sediment samples, and a huge amount of data analysis.…
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Impact of Microplastic Ingestion on Microzooplankton
Impact of Microplastic Ingestion on Microzooplankton In laboratory experiments I conducted in 2020, the heterotrophic dinoflagellate species Oxyrrhis marina and Gyrodinium sp. readily ingested polystyrene microplastic (MP) spheres (2.5–4.5 μm). Those that ingested MPs had growth rates reduced by 25–35% over the course of 5 days, resulting in a 30–50% reduction of secondary production. Observations in the coastal ocean…
Victoria Fulfer 