T220 GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division

Wednesday, 12 October 2022
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
207

HOW TO GENERATE REPRODUCIBLE RIVERINE PLASTIC POLLUTION RESEARCH

Paper number: T220-7
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 9:20 AM – 9:35 AM

Authors

Abstract

Riverine plastic pollution samples are often very limited for a study due to the enormous amount of time and resources that must go into collecting a single sample. New methodologies are being proposed every year to increase throughput and decrease costs, but no widely used methodology has fully overcome this problem. Grappling with copious details about measurements, reporting, subsampling, and uncertainty estimation is critical to ensuring the reproducibility of riverine plastic pollution studies and advancing the science. This talk will discuss strategies for generating reproducible riverine plastic pollution research and discuss future avenues to improving throughput.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 54, No. 6

doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-377264

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