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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

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