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Data · collection · 2010

Marine plastics found at Heard Island and Macquarie Island

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR

This project monitored plastics at the four-bays area on Heard Island and at Sandell Bay on Macquarie Island.

Description

It characterised plastics by infra-red spectroscopy both from the beach collection and small pieces from fur-seal stomachs and cormorant boluses. The aim was to assess human impact on the ocean by measuring plastic abundance and type.

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Catalogue records · 2

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Pollution and contamination 69%
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