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TOPIOS

Project number 715386

Coordinated by Universiteit Utrecht - Netherlands

Level International

Plastic types Plastic litter

Funding source European Union EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Project Website https://topios.org/

Project cost 1.484.760,00 EUR

Period April 2017 - March 2022

Geographical area Europe Arctic Region Antarctica

Categories Environmental Monitoring Water Coastal and Marine Environment Earth Observation

Tags marine ocean tracking

Project partners

Description

This project will make breakthroughs towards closing the plastic budget by creating a novel comprehensive modelling framework that tracks plastic movement through the ocean. Building on well-established previous work to follow generic water parcels through hydrodynamic ocean models, this project will modify these ‘virtual’ parcels to represent pieces of plastic by, for the first time, simulating fragmentation, sinking, beaching, wave-mixing and ingestion by biota.

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Knowledge Gaps

Degradation

Environmental fate and behavior of plastic

Fate and behavior within an organism

Environmental effects and ecotoxicity

Chronic or long-term effects, multiple forms and/or sources

Biological processes and biotic interactions with plastic

Environmental exposure

Consumer exposure

Bioaccumulation and biomagnification

Characteristics of plastic-general

Human toxicity

Bioaccumulation, bioconcentration and persistence

Bioaccumulation and persistence test methods

Translocation within an organism

Environmental risk assessment (ERA)

Monitoring exposure methods

Characterization test methods

Monitoring and detection equipment

Effects assessment-general

Uptake routes

Reproductive and teratogenic effects

Models to predict toxicity

Testing considerations-general

Publications

PDFGlobal mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris

August 7 2023

PDFKnowns and unknowns of plastic waste flows in the Netherlands

July 16 2023

PDFEfficiently simulating Lagrangian particles in large-scale ocean flows — Data structures and their impact on geophysical applications

April 3 2023

PDFRapid shipboard measurement of net‑collected marine microplastic polymer types using near‑infrared hyperspectral imaging

March 16 2023

PDFModeling carbon export mediated by biofouled microplastics in the Mediterranean Sea

March 6 2023

PDFInfluence of Particle Size and Fragmentation on Large-Scale Microplastic Transport in the Mediterranean Sea

October 21 2022

PDFFive actionable pillars to engage the next generation of leaders in the co-design of transformative ocean solutions

October 17 2022

PDFPerceptual multivariate visualisation of volumetric Lagrangian fluid-flow processes

September 5 2022

PDFModelling submerged biofouled microplastics and their vertical trajectories

April 25 2022

PDFPlastic pollution in the Arctic

April 5 2022

PDFEmpirical Lagrangian parametrization for wind-driven mixing of buoyant particles at the ocean surface

March 9 2022

PDFUsing machine learning and beach cleanup data to explain litter quantities along the Dutch North Sea coast

March 3 2022

PDFIdentifying Marine Sources of Beached Plastics Through a Bayesian Framework: Application to Southwest Netherlands

February 4 2022

PDFPractices, pitfalls and guidelines in visualising Lagrangian ocean analyses

June 17 2021

PDFAn inshore–offshore sorting system revealed from global classification of ocean litter

June 10 2021

PDFGlobal simulations of marine plastic transport show plastic trapping in coastal zones

June 2 2021

PDFModelling size distributions of marine plastics under the influence of continuous cascading fragmentation

May 13 2021

PDFGlobal Modeled Sinking Characteristics of Biofouled Microplastic

March 20 2021

PDFSinking microplastics in the water column: simulations in the Mediterranean Sea

March 9 2021

PDFThe quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects

January 19 2021

PDFOrdering of trajectories reveals hierarchical finite-time coherent sets in Lagrangian particle data: detecting Agulhas rings in the South Atlantic Ocean

January 19 2021

PDFOcean Surface Connectivity in the Arctic: Capabilities and Caveats of Community Detection in Lagrangian Flow Networks

December 6 2020

PDFLaboratory Measurements of the Wave-Induced Motion of Plastic Particles: Influence of Wave Period, Plastic Size and Plastic Density

November 23 2020

PDFDetecting flow features in scarce trajectory data using networks derived from symbolic itineraries: an application to surface drifters in the North Atlantic

November 14 2020

PDFRisks of floating microplastic in the global ocean

August 31 2020

PDFClosing the Mediterranean Marine Floating Plastic Mass Budget: Inverse Modeling of Sources and Sinks

August 27 2020

PDFThe physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

February 17 2020

PDFMicro- and Nanoplastics in Alpine Snow: A New Method for Chemical Identification and (Semi)Quantification in the Nanogram Range

January 17 2020

PDFInfluence of Barotropic Tidal Currents on Transport and Accumulation of Floating Microplastics in the Global Open Ocean

January 17 2020

PDFBeaching patterns of plastic debris along the Indian Ocean rim

October 30 2019

PDFMixing of passive tracers at the ocean surface and its implications for plastic transport modelling

October 29 2019

PDFMeasuring Marine Plastic Debris from Space: Initial Assessment of Observation Requirements

October 21 2019

PDFBasin-scale sources and pathways of microplastic that ends up in the Galápagos Archipelago

October 14 2019

PDFToward the Integrated Marine Debris Observing System

August 28 2019

PDFInfluence of Near-Surface Currents on the Global Dispersal of Marine Microplastic

August 23 2019

PDFThe Parcels v2.0 Lagrangian framework: new field interpolation schemes

August 19 2019

PDFRole of Indian Ocean Dynamics on Accumulation of Buoyant Debris

April 10 2019

PDFEstimating the Mass of Chemicals Associated with Ocean Plastic Pollution to Inform Mitigation Efforts

March 22 2019

PDFPlastics in sea surface waters around the Antarctic peninsula

March 8 2019

PDFThe Role of Ekman Currents, Geostrophy, and Stokes Drift in the Accumulation of Floating Microplastic

March 6 2019

PDFThe true depth of the Mediterranean plastic problem: Extreme microplastic pollution on marine turtle nesting beaches in Cyprus

September 22 2018

PDFThe occurrence and degradation of aquatic plastic litter based on polymer physicochemical properties: A review

August 24 2018

PDFSurface Connectivity and Interocean Exchanges From Drifter-Based Transition Matrices

January 19 2018

PDFAnticyclonic eddies increase accumulation of microplastic in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre

December 22 2017

PDFLagrangian ocean analysis: Fundamentals and practices

November 24 2017

PDFConcept for a hyperspectral remote sensing algorithm for floating marine macro plastics

November 20 2017

PDFParcels v0.9: prototyping a Lagrangian ocean analysis framework for the petascale age

November 17 2017

PDFAll is not lost: deriving a top-down mass budget of plastic at sea

November 10 2017

PDFPrevention through policy: Urban macroplastic leakages to the marine environment during extreme rainfall events

July 27 2017

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