Tracking Of Plastic In Our Seas

Project Information

TOPIOS

Grant agreement ID: 715386

DOI 10.3030/715386

Project closed

EC signature date 17 January 2017

Start date 1 April 2017

End date 31 March 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 484 760,00

EU contribution € 1 484 760,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Netherlands

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (39)

Laboratory Measurements of the Wave‐Induced Motion of Plastic Particles: Influence of Wave Period, Plastic Size and Plastic Density

Author(s): José M. Alsina, Cleo E. Jongedijk, Erik van Sebille
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Issue 125/12, 2020, ISSN 2169-9275
Publisher: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2020jc016294

The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

Author(s): Erik van Sebille, Stefano Aliani, Kara Lavender Law, Nikolai Maximenko, José M Alsina, Andrei Bagaev, Melanie Bergmann, Bertrand Chapron, Irina Chubarenko, Andrés Cózar, Philippe Delandmeter, Matthias Egger, Baylor Fox-Kemper, Shungudzemwoyo P Garaba, Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy, Britta Denise Hardesty, Matthew J Hoffman, Atsuhiko Isobe, Cleo E Jongedijk, Mikael L A Kaandorp, Liliya Khatmullina, Alb
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 15/2, 2020, Page(s) 023003, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab6d7d

Modelling submerged biofouled microplastics and their vertical trajectories

Author(s): Fischer, Reint; Lobelle, Delphine; Kooi, Merel; Koelmans, Albert; Onink, Victor; Laufkoetter, Charlotte; Amaral-Zettler, Linda; Yool, Andrew; van Sebille, Erik
Published in: BIOGEOSCIENCES, 2022, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/bg-19-2211-2022

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

Author(s): Kaandorp, Mikael L. A.; Ypma, Stefanie L.; Boonstra, Marijke; Dijkstra, Henk A.; van Sebille, Erik
Published in: OCEAN SCI, 2022, ISSN 1812-0792
Publisher: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/os-18-269-2022

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

Author(s): Rebeca de la Fuente, Gábor Drótos, Emilio Hernández-García, Cristóbal López, Erik van Sebille
Published in: Ocean Science, Issue 17/2, 2021, Page(s) 431-453, ISSN 1812-0792
Publisher: Ocean Science
DOI: 10.5194/os-17-431-2021

PRACTICES, PITFALLS AND GUIDELINES IN VISUALISING LAGRANGIAN OCEAN ANALYSES

Author(s): C. Kehl, R. P. B. Fischer, E. van Sebille
Published in: ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Issue V-4-2021, 2021, Page(s) 217-224, ISSN 2194-9050
Publisher: ISPRS
DOI: 10.5194/isprs-annals-v-4-2021-217-2021

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

Author(s): Mikael L A Kaandorp, Henk A Dijkstra, Erik van Sebille
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 16/5, 2021, Page(s) 054075, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abe9ea

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

Author(s): Onink, Victor; van Sebille, Erik; Laufkotter, Charlotte
Published in: GEOSCI MODEL DEV, 2022, ISSN 1991-9603
Publisher: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-15-1995-2022

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

Author(s): Carmen Morales-Caselles, Josué Viejo, Elisa Martí, Daniel González-Fernández, Hannah Pragnell-Raasch, J. Ignacio González-Gordillo, Enrique Montero, Gonzalo M. Arroyo, Georg Hanke, Vanessa S. Salvo, Oihane C. Basurko, Nicholas Mallos, Laurent Lebreton, Fidel Echevarría, Tim van Emmerik, Carlos M. Duarte, José A. Gálvez, Erik van Sebille, François Galgani, Carlos M. García, Peter S. Ross,
Published in: Nature Sustainability, Issue 4/6, 2021, Page(s) 484-493, ISSN 2398-9629
Publisher: Nature Sustainability
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-021-00720-8

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

Author(s): Miriam F. Sterl, Philippe Delandmeter, Erik Sebille
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Issue 125/2, 2020, ISSN 2169-9275
Publisher: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2019jc015583

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

Author(s): Dušan Materić, Anne Kasper-Giebl, Daniela Kau, Marnick Anten, Marion Greilinger, Elke Ludewig, Erik van Sebille, Thomas Röckmann, Rupert Holzinger
Published in: Environmental Science & Technology, Issue 54/4, 2020, Page(s) 2353-2359, ISSN 0013-936X
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b07540

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

Author(s): Emily M. Duncan, Jessica Arrowsmith, Charlotte Bain, Annette C. Broderick, Jonathon Lee, Kristian Metcalfe, Stephen K. Pikesley, Robin T.E. Snape, Erik van Sebille, Brendan J. Godley
Published in: Marine Pollution Bulletin, Issue 136, 2018, Page(s) 334-340, ISSN 0025-326X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.09.019

Lagrangian ocean analysis: Fundamentals and practices

Author(s): Erik van Sebille, Stephen M. Griffies, Ryan Abernathey, Thomas P. Adams, Pavel Berloff, Arne Biastoch, Bruno Blanke, Eric P. Chassignet, Yu Cheng, Colin J. Cotter, Eric Deleersnijder, Kristofer Döös, Henri F. Drake, Sybren Drijfhout, Stefan F. Gary, Arnold W. Heemink, Joakim Kjellsson, Inga Monika Koszalka, Michael Lange, Camille Lique, Graeme A. MacGilchrist, Robert Marsh, C. Gabriela Mayorga A
Published in: Ocean Modelling, Issue 121, 2018, Page(s) 49-75, ISSN 1463-5003
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2017.11.008

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

Author(s): Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy, Steef Peters, Erik van Sebille, Neil A. James, Stuart Gibb
Published in: Marine Pollution Bulletin, Issue 126, 2018, Page(s) 255-262, ISSN 0025-326X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.11.011

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

Author(s): Tom Bond, Veronica Ferrandiz-Mas, Mónica Felipe-Sotelo, Erik van Sebille
Published in: Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 2018, Page(s) 1-38, ISSN 1064-3389
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/10643389.2018.1483155

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

Author(s): Charles Axelsson, Erik van Sebille
Published in: Marine Pollution Bulletin, Issue 124/1, 2017, Page(s) 211-227, ISSN 0025-326X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.07.024

Surface Connectivity and Interocean Exchanges From Drifter-Based Transition Matrices

Author(s): Ronan McAdam, Erik van Sebille
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Issue 123/1, 2018, Page(s) 514-532, ISSN 2169-9275
Publisher: to check
DOI: 10.1002/2017JC013363

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

Author(s): Michael Lange, Erik van Sebille
Published in: Geoscientific Model Development, Issue 10/11, 2017, Page(s) 4175-4186, ISSN 1991-9603
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-4175-2017

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

Author(s): Albert A Koelmans, Merel Kooi, Kara Lavender Law, Erik van Sebille
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 12/11, 2017, Page(s) 114028, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa9500

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

Author(s): Laurent Brach, Patrick Deixonne, Marie-France Bernard, Edmée Durand, Marie-Christine Desjean, Emile Perez, Erik van Sebille, Alexandra ter Halle
Published in: Marine Pollution Bulletin, Issue 126, 2018, Page(s) 191-196, ISSN 0025-326X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.10.077

Toward the Integrated Marine Debris Observing System

Author(s): Nikolai Maximenko, Paolo Corradi, Kara Lavender Law, Erik Van Sebille, Shungudzemwoyo P. Garaba, Richard Stephen Lampitt, Francois Galgani, Victor Martinez-Vicente, Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy, Joana Mira Veiga, Richard C. Thompson, Christophe Maes, Delwyn Moller, Carolin Regina Löscher, Anna Maria Addamo, Megan R. Lamson, Luca R. Centurioni, Nicole R. Posth, Rick Lumpkin, Matteo Vinci, Ana Maria Mart
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 6, 2019, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00447

Plastics in sea surface waters around the Antarctic Peninsula

Author(s): Ana L. d. F. Lacerda, Lucas dos S. Rodrigues, Erik van Sebille, Fábio L. Rodrigues, Lourenço Ribeiro, Eduardo R. Secchi, Felipe Kessler, Maíra C. Proietti
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 9/1, 2019, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40311-4

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

Author(s): Victor Onink, David Wichmann, Philippe Delandmeter, Erik Sebille
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Issue 124/3, 2019, Page(s) 1474-1490, ISSN 2169-9275
Publisher: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2018jc014547

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

Author(s): Philippe Delandmeter, Erik van Sebille
Published in: Geoscientific Model Development, Issue 12/8, 2019, Page(s) 3571-3584, ISSN 1991-9603
Publisher: European Geosciences Union
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-12-3571-2019

Role of Indian Ocean Dynamics on Accumulation of Buoyant Debris

Author(s): Mirjam Mheen, Charitha Pattiaratchi, Erik Sebille
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Issue 124/4, 2019, Page(s) 2571-2590, ISSN 2169-9275
Publisher: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2018jc014806

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

Author(s): Víctor Martínez-Vicente, James R. Clark, Paolo Corradi, Stefano Aliani, Manuel Arias, Mathias Bochow, Guillaume Bonnery, Matthew Cole, Andrés Cózar, Rory Donnelly, Fidel Echevarría, François Galgani, Shungudzemwoyo P. Garaba, Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy, Laurent Lebreton, Heather A. Leslie, Penelope K. Lindeque, Nikolai Maximenko, François-Régis Martin-Lauzer, Delwyn Moller, Peter Murphy, Loren
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 11/20, 2019, Page(s) 2443, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs11202443

Influence of Near‐Surface Currents on the Global Dispersal of Marine Microplastic

Author(s): David Wichmann, Philippe Delandmeter, Erik van Sebille
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Issue 124/8, 2019, Page(s) 6086-6096, ISSN 2169-9275
Publisher: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2019jc015328

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

Author(s): David Wichmann, Philippe Delandmeter, Henk A Dijkstra, Erik van Sebille
Published in: Environmental Research Communications, Issue 1/11, 2019, Page(s) 115001, ISSN 2515-7620
Publisher: IOP Science
DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/ab4e77

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

Author(s): Erik van Sebille, Philippe Delandmeter, John Schofield, Britta Denise Hardesty, Jen Jones, Andy Donnelly
Published in: Ocean Science, Issue 15/5, 2019, Page(s) 1341-1349, ISSN 1812-0792
Publisher: EGU
DOI: 10.5194/os-15-1341-2019

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

Author(s): Hannah L Frond, Erik Sebille, J Mark Parnis, Miriam L Diamond, Nicholas Mallos, Tony Kingsbury, Chelsea M Rochman
Published in: Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Issue 15/4, 2019, Page(s) 596-606, ISSN 1551-3777
Publisher: Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.4147

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

Author(s): David Wichmann, Christian Kehl, Henk A. Dijkstra, Erik van Sebille
Published in: Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Issue 27/4, 2020, Page(s) 501-518, ISSN 1607-7946
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/npg-27-501-2020

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

Author(s): Bram van Duinen; Mikael Lauri Alexander Kaandorp; Erik Van Sebille
Published in: GEOPHYS RES LETT, Issue 9, 2022, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10507985.1

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

Author(s): Miquel Canals, Christopher K. Pham, Melanie Bergmann, Lars Gutow, Georg Hanke, Erik van Sebille, Michela Angiolillo, Lene Buhl-Mortensen, Alessando Cau, Christos Ioakeimidis, Ulrike Kammann, Lonny Lundsten, George Papatheodorou, Autun Purser, Anna Sanchez-Vidal, Marcus Schulz, Matteo Vinci, Sanae Chiba, Francois Galgani, Daniel Langenkämper, Tiia Möller, Tim W. Nattkemper, Marta Ruiz, Sanna Suik
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, 2021, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abc6d4

Risks of floating microplastic in the global ocean

Author(s): G. Everaert, M. De Rijcke, B. Lonneville, C.R. Janssen, T. Backhaus, J. Mees, E. van Sebille, A.A. Koelmans, A.I. Catarino, M.B. Vandegehuchte
Published in: Environmental Pollution, Issue 267, 2020, Page(s) 115499, ISSN 0269-7491
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115499

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

Author(s): Mikael L. A. Kaandorp, Henk A. Dijkstra, Erik van Sebille
Published in: Environmental Science & Technology, Issue 54/19, 2020, Page(s) 11980-11989, ISSN 0013-936X
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c01984

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

Author(s): David Wichmann, Christian Kehl, Henk A. Dijkstra, Erik van Sebille
Published in: Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Issue 28/1, 2021, Page(s) 43-59, ISSN 1607-7946
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/npg-28-43-2021

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

Author(s): Victor Onink, Cleo E Jongedijk, Matthew J Hoffman, Erik van Sebille, Charlotte Laufkötter
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 16/6, 2021, Page(s) 064053, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abecbd

Global Modeled Sinking Characteristics of Biofouled Microplastic

Author(s): Delphine Lobelle, Merel Kooi, Albert A. Koelmans, Charlotte Laufkötter, Cleo E. Jongedijk, Christian Kehl, Erik van Sebille
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Issue 126/4, 2021, ISSN 2169-9275
Publisher: JGR Oceans
DOI: 10.1029/2020jc017098

Beaching patterns of plastic debris along the Indian Ocean rim

Author(s): Mirjam van der Mheen, Erik van Sebille, Charitha Pattiaratchi
Published in: Ocean Science, Issue 16/5, 2020, Page(s) 1317-1336, ISSN 1812-0792
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/os-16-1317-2020

Conference proceedings (1)

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

Author(s): Daan Reijnders; Erik Jan van Leeuwen; Erik van Sebille
Published in: EGU General Assembly 2021, Issue 1, 2021
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-201