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Xia Zhu
Environmental Scientist, Plastic Pollution Researcher (Earth sciences; Environmental sciences; Oceanography)
I am a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada investigating the sources, transport, fate, and effects of plastic pollution in the environment.
Publications
- Emissions Inventories of Plastic Pollution: A Critical Foundation of an International Agreement to Inform Targets and Quantify Progress
- Methods Matter: Methods for Sampling Microplastic and Other Anthropogenic Particles and Their Implications for Monitoring and Ecological Risk Assessment
- Multiyear Water Quality Performance and Mass Accumulation of PCBs, Mercury, Methylmercury, Copper, and Microplastics in a Bioretention Rain Garden
- Rethinking microplastics as a diverse contaminant suite
- The Plastic Cycle – An Unknown Branch of the Carbon Cycle
- Optimization of elutriation device for filtration of microplastic particles from sediment
- Identification of Microfibers in the Environment Using Multiple Lines of Evidence
- Think Global, Act Local: Local Knowledge Is Critical to Inform Positive Change When It Comes to Microplastics
- Urban Stormwater Runoff: A Major Pathway for Anthropogenic Particles, Black Rubbery Fragments, and Other Types of Microplastics to Urban Receiving Waters
- Holistic Assessment of Microplastics and Other Anthropogenic Microdebris in an Urban Bay Sheds Light on Their Sources and Fate
- A City-Wide Emissions Inventory of Plastic Pollution
- Plastics in the deep sea – A global estimate of the ocean floor reservoir
- Marine Animals as a Global Reservoir of Plastic Pollution: A Case Study on Sea Turtles
- A First Attempt at Modeling the Global Reservoir of Plastic in Biota: A Case Study With Sea Turtles
- The knowns and unknowns in our understanding of how plastics impact climate change: a systematic review