1,- 1Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT) - UMR 5502, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse INP, Université Paul Sabatier UT3, Toulouse, France (matthieu.mercier@imft.fr)
- 2Ecole Centrale de Lyon, CNRS, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSA Lyon, LMFA, UMR5509, 69130, Ecully, France
- 3Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
- 4Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Med, IRPHE, Marseille, France
Plastic pollution is a very active research topic for a wide variety of scientific disciplines. While existing reviews of plastic pollution in the ocean cover the topic from different disciplinary and interdisciplinary viewpoints, this review addresses the contributions from laboratory experiments towards the geophysical processes important in marine plastic pollution research. We review the laboratory research on the transport, transformations, and origin and fate of marine plastic pollution with recommendations for future research [1].
[1] Marie Poulain-Zarcos; Nimish Pujara; Gautier Verhille; Matthieu J. Mercier. Laboratory experiments related to marine plastic pollution: a review of past work and future directions. Comptes Rendus. Physique (2024), pp. 1-32. doi : 10.5802/crphys.217
How to cite: Mercier, M., Poulain-Zarcos, M., Pujara, N., and Verhille, G.: Laboratory experiments related to marine plastic pollution: a review of past work and future directions, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-17744, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-17744, 2025.
