Marine debris is a growing global problem. Due to the wide ocean dynamics worldwide, predicting the transport of floating marine debris, such as plastic, is difficult. Although large-scale distribution patterns and accumulation zones are recognised and reproduced by numerical models, small-scale prediction …

It has been widely recognized that the rapidly increasing amounts of marine plastic debris are causing problems. However, current studies are mainly focused on the presence and effects of macroplastic and often do not consider microplastic. WMR has conducted research on microplastic uptake by North Sea …

De Waddenzee is een belangrijk gebied voor miljoenen trekvogels. Wanneer er een olieramp optreedt, worden vogels meestal in grote aantallen aangetast vanwege hun gevoeligheid voor olie. Als er een olieramp zou optreden in de Waddenzee zou dit een ramp zijn. Daarom is het belangrijk om voorbereid te zijn …

Rijkswaterstaat is beperkt bij de oliebestrijding in de Waddenzee. Door samenwerking met gebiedsbeheerders en andere lokale partijen kan de oliebestrijding worden verbeterd. In 2013 het Ecologisch Spoorboekje Oliebestrijding uitgekomen. Dit boekje geeft handvatten om maatregelen te nemen in kwetsbare …

Baseline data on anthropogenic seafloor debris contamination in the year 2000 is provided for 24 submersible video transects at depths of 80–900 m, off the Dutch ABC-islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao), in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. In total, 202 objects were documented from a combined 21,184 m of …

Marine litter is cited by UNEP as “Any persistent, manufactured or processed solid material discarded, disposed of, or abandoned in the marine and coastal environment”, and includes metal, glass, paper, cardboard, processed wood, cloth and plastic. This report focuses mainly on the plastic fraction of …

This bachelor thesis reports on a study conducted at the research institute IMARES in the Netherlands. It focused on plastics ingested by northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) around the North Sea region as a contribution to a better understanding of the fulmar in its role as an indicator for marine …