Press Release
The water-column microplastic inventory in the Arctic Ocean on the Pacific side (Chukchi Sea) was estimated for the first time
A research group led by Takahito Ikenoue, researcher at the Research Institute for Global Change (RIGC), Marine Biodiversity and Environmental Assessment Research Center (BioEnv), Marine Plastics Research Group (M-Plastics), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), and including Junko Toyoshima, Research Fellow at the Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI) of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, have clarified the water-column microplastic inventory in the Chukchi Sea of the Arctic Ocean on the Pacific side and the annual flux of microplastics from the Pacific Ocean into the Chukchi Sea.