Participating Institutes
In 2017, the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) and the International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change (ICWRGC) organized a Summer School about plastics in marine and freshwater environments providing the state-of-the-art in research, measures and management options. One of the outcomes of this Summer School is the creation of a platform in order to share insights into the current (country-specific) situation, discuss related challenges and enhance collaboration opportunities in the future. The participating institutes present their research projects about plastics in freshwater and coastal environments.
Research projects:
Current list of participating institutes:
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- Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Faculty of Fisheries, Turkey
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National Research Council (CNR), Institute for Chemical and Physical processes (IPCF), Messina, Italy
Project name: MERLIN-MICROPLASTIQUES, funded by Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER) -
National Research Council, Water Research Institute, Bari, Italy
Project name: MICROPLASMA – MIcro and maCRO PLAStic pollution Monitoring with Advanced technologies -
National Research Council, Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection, Bari, Italy
Project name: Microplastic and karstic gorundwater -
University of Freiburg, Hydrology
Bachelor Theses on: “A case study of tire wear particles in the Dreisam river (Freiburg, Germany)”; “Comparison of microplastic pollution of treated wastewater and river water of the Dreisam river (Freiburg, Germany)”; “Determining the status quo of microplastic pollution in the Dreisam river (Freiburg, Germany)” -
IfBB – Institute for Bioplastics and Biocomposites, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hannover
Project name: SeaArt – Long term establishment of SEAgrass ecosystems through biodegradable ARTificial meadows -
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), University of Münster, Institute of Landscape Ecology (ILÖK), Institute of molecular microbiology and biotechnology (IMMB), University of Bielefeld, University of Potsdam, Ecossa and Mesocosm GmbH
Project name: MikroPlaTaS – Microplastics in Dams and Reservoirs: Sedimentation, Spread, Effects -
Roskilde University, Denmark
Project name: Plastfri Roskilde fjord -
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)
Project name: EI-GEO (Environmental impact of geosynthetics in aquatic systems) -
Germany’s Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung – BMBF)
Project name: Plastics in the Environment – Sources • Sinks • Solutions -
Cukurova University, Faculty of Fisheries
Project name: Determination of the Current State of Microplastic Pollution in the Sandy Beaches around Iskenderun Bay (MICROBEACH) -
National Research and Development Institute for Marine Geology and Geoecology – GeoEcoMar
Project name: Studies of microplastic particles from modern sediments from macro-geo-system Danube River-Danube Delta-Black Sea Coast-Black Sea -
WESSLING Hungary Ltd.
Project name: Microplastic Sampling Method -
Dalhousie University, School for Resource and Environmental Studies
Project name: Policies to reduce use and disposal of single-use plastics -
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology
Project name: The impact of microplastics on aquatic plants -
Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries
Project name: DropS – Reduction of plastic waste from beam trawl fishery through gear modifications -
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Project name: Litter rim of the Baltic Sea coast: monitoring, impact, and remediation (BalticLitter) -
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (funded by UKWIR)
Project name: Sink to River – River to Tap A review of potential risks from nanoparticles and microplastics -
RIMMEL
Project name: RIMMEL – RIverine and Marine floating macro litter Monitoring and Modelling of Environmental Loading -
University of Alcalá
Project name: Thematic Newtork of Micro- and Nanoplastics in the Environment (EnviroPlaNet) -
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Project name: Environmental risk of micro and nanoplastics in wastewater treatment systems and receiving bodies
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Department of Geography and Environmental Studies Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Project name: Spatial and temporal distribution of microplastics in the Ottawa River, Canada.
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Federal Instituto of Paraná
Project name: Transboundary movement of marine litter in an estuarine gradient: Evaluating sources and sinks using hydrodynamic modelling and ground truthing estimates
- Lagos State University, Nigeria
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Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Project name: Microplastic pollution study in the Ogun and Osun River Systems, Nigeria
- LEESU – Laboratoire Eau Environnement et Systèmes Urbains (Leesu) Laboratoire Eau Environnement et Systèmes Urbains
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ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research
Project name: PlastX – Researching Plastics in the Environment from a Social-Ecological Perspective -
Tel-Aviv University Water Research Center
Project name: New approach to detect and quantify PAEs in marine environments, Accumulate in filter-feeding invertebrates -
Tezpur University, India
Project name: To study the sediment geochemistry of the Brahmaputra River
