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  • Guidelines for Harmonizing Ocean Surface Microplastic Monitoring Methods. Version 1.2. 

    Michida, Yutaka; Chavanich, Suchana; Chiba, Sanae; Cordova, Muhammad Reza; Cozsar Cabanas, Andrés; Galgani, Francois; Hagmann, Pascal; Hinata, Hirofumi; Isobe, Atsuhiko; Kershaw, Peter; Kozlovskii, Nikolai; Li, Daoji; Lusher, Amy L.; Marti, Elisa; Mason, Sherri A.; Mu, Jingli; Saito, Hiroaki; Shim, Won Joon; Syakti, Agung Dhamar; Takada, Hideshige; Thompson, Richard; Tokai, Tadashi; Uchida, Keiichi; Vasilenko, Katerina; Wang, Juying (Ministry of the Environment, Japan, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo , Japan, 2023)
    This document presents the version (1.2) of “Guidelines for Harmonizing Ocean Surface Microplastic Monitoring Methods” (herein after referred to as the Guidelines). Its primary goal is to propose ways of harmonizing ...
  • Guidelines for Harmonizing Ocean Surface Microplastic Monitoring Methods. Version 1.0. {SUPERSEDED by http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-867] 

    Michida, Yutaka; Chavanich, Suchana; Cózar Cabañas, Andrés; Hagmann, Pascal; Hinata, Hirofumi; Isobe, Atsuhiko; Kershaw, Peter; Kozlovskii, Nikolai; Li, Daoji; Lusher, Amy L.; Martí, Elisa; Mason, Sherri A.; Mu, Jingli; Saito, Hiroaki; Shim, Won Joon; Syakti, Agung Dhamar; Takada, Hideshige; Thompson, Richard; Tokai, Tadashi; Uchida, Keiichi; Vasilenko, Katerina; Wang, Juying (Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ), Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 2019)
    Marine litter, including microplastics, is a current global challenge. Determining the existing distributions and quantities of microplastics in the ocean is an urgent task. Comparison of reported microplastic abundances, ...