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Marcus Eriksen
Publications - 26
Citations - 9063
Marcus Eriksen is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Plastic pollution & Marine debris. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 22 publications receiving 6168 citations.
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Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea
Marcus Eriksen,Laurent Lebreton,Henry S. Carson,Martin Thiel,Charles J. Moore,Jose C. Borerro,François Galgani,Peter G. Ryan,Julia Reisser +8 more
TL;DR: The total number of plastic particles and their weight floating in the world's oceans is estimated from 24 expeditions across all five sub-tropical gyres, costal Australia, Bay of Bengal and the Mediterranean Sea conducting surface net tows and visual survey transects of large plastic debris.
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Microplastic pollution in the surface waters of the Laurentian Great Lakes
Marcus Eriksen,Sherri A. Mason,Stiv Wilson,Carolyn Box,A.F. Zellers,William J. Edwards,Hannah Farley,Stephen Amato +7 more
TL;DR: The presence of microplastics and coal ash in these surface samples, which were most abundant where lake currents converge, are likely from nearby urban effluent and coal burning power plants.
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A global inventory of small floating plastic debris
Erik van Sebille,Erik van Sebille,Chris Wilcox,Laurent Lebreton,Nikolai Maximenko,Britta Denise Hardesty,Jan A. van Franeker,Marcus Eriksen,David A. Siegel,François Galgani,Kara Lavender Law +10 more
TL;DR: This paper used a rigorous statistical framework to standardize a global dataset of plastic marine debris measured using surface-trawling plankton nets and coupled this with three different ocean circulation models to spatially interpolate the observations.
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High-levels of microplastic pollution in a large, remote, mountain lake
Christopher M. Free,Olaf P. Jensen,Sherri A. Mason,Marcus Eriksen,Nicholas J. Williamson,Bazartseren Boldgiv +5 more
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that without proper waste management, low-density populations can heavily pollute freshwater systems with consumer plastics.
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Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution.
Stephanie B. Borrelle,Stephanie B. Borrelle,Stephanie B. Borrelle,Jeremy Ringma,Jeremy Ringma,Kara Lavender Law,Cole C. Monnahan,Laurent Lebreton,Alexis McGivern,Erin L. Murphy,Jenna Jambeck,George H. Leonard,Michelle A. Hilleary,Marcus Eriksen,Hugh P. Possingham,Hugh P. Possingham,Hannah De Frond,Leah R. Gerber,Beth Polidoro,Akbar Tahir,Miranda Bernard,Nicholas Mallos,Megan Barnes,Chelsea M. Rochman +23 more
TL;DR: Assessment of three broad management strategies, plastic waste reduction, waste management, and environmental recovery, at different levels of effort to estimate plastic emissions to 2030 for 173 countries found that 19 to 23 million metric tons, or 11%, of plastic waste generated globally in 2016 entered aquatic ecosystems.