JAMSTEC Community Practices

Sediment sampling with a core sampler equipped with aluminum tubes and an onboard processing protocol to avoid plastic contamination

Tsuchiya, Masashi; Nomaki, Hidetaka; Kitahashi, Tomo; Nakajima, Ryota; Fujikura, Katsunori (2019)

Microplastics are abundant even on the deep-sea floor far from land and the ocean surface where human activities take place. To obtain samples of microplastics from the deep-sea floor, a research vessel and suitable sampling ...
A new small device made of glass for separating microplastics from marine and freshwater sediments.

Nakajima, Ryota; Tsuchiya, Masashi; Lindsay, Dhugal J.; Kitahashi, Tomo; Fujikura, Katsunori; Fukushima, Tomohiko (2019)

Separating microplastics from marine and freshwater sediments is challenging, but necessary to determine their distribution, mass, and ecological impacts in benthic environments. Density separation is commonly used to ...