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Covid-19 and increase in plastic debris in coastal and marine environments [PDF]
Plastics are widely used in society due to their many benefits, cheapness and availability and global plastic production in 2018 reached 359 million tons per year.
Edris Alang
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Coastal Armoring Impacts on Beaches and Sea Turtles
Close to 19.6 million people live in Florida, and 76.5% of them, or approximately 15 million, live on the coast. Florida’s coasts are attractive despite the increasing risks from sea-level rise and more frequent climatic events such as hurricanes and ...
Martha Monroe, Ray Carthy, Melissa Hill
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The post-containment period of spring 2020 in Western Europe was a time of hope and hesitation about the possibility of a return to normality after the first act of Covid-19.
Samuel Robert +5 more
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Quantifying Marine Plastic Debris in a Beach Environment Using Spectral Analysis
Marine plastic debris (MPD) is a globally relevant environmental challenge, with an estimated 8 million tons of synthetic debris entering the marine environment each year.
Jenna A. Guffogg +5 more
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The Coastal Imaging Research Network (CIRN)
The Coastal Imaging Research Network (CIRN) is an international group of researchers who exploit signatures of phenomena in imagery of coastal, estuarine, and riverine environments.
Margaret L. Palmsten +1 more
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Coastal erosion is anissuewhich affects beaches all over the world and that signifies enormous economic and environmental losses. Classed as a slow phenomenon, the evolution of the coastline requires long-term analysis. In this study, old cartography and
Daniel Ibarra-Marinas +3 more
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A new concept of beach memory is investigated in this research. Using a Beach Evolution Model developed for beach rotation, we define a function of beach memory able to describe the weight of the preceding wave conditions and their contribution in the current beach response.
Turki, Imen +2 more
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Urban sewage water pathways seem most important for microplastics emissions to the Baltic Sea. We use microplastics emission data for the entire Baltic Sea region, calculate emissions for three sewage water related urban pathways and develop emission ...
Gerald Schernewski +6 more
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Foredune and Beach Dynamics on the Southern Shores of Lake Michigan during Recent High Water Levels
From 18 January 2013 (175.16 m a.s.l.) to 8 September 2020 (177.82 m a.s.l.), Lake Michigan experienced its fastest and highest rise (2.67 m) since 1860, when instrumental measurements began.
Zoran Kilibarda, Vesna Kilibarda
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High counts of bacteria are present in beach sand, and human health threats attributable to contact with sand have been reported. In this study, we investigated fecal indicator bacteria in the top surface sand of coastal beaches.
Soichiro Tamai +3 more
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