Marine plastics found at Heard Island and Macquarie Island

Monthly beach collections were made by a human observer. Material was classed by infra-red spectroscopy. The values provided in temporal and spatial coverage are approximate only. This project monitored plastics at the four-bays area on Heard Island and at Sandell Bay on Macquarie Island. It charact...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
Subjects:
environment
oceans
CONTAMINANT LEVELS/SPILLS
EARTH SCIENCE
HUMAN DIMENSIONS
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
OCEAN CONTAMINANTS
WATER QUALITY
Flotsam
Debris
rubbish
Marine Debris
garbage
VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
FIELD INVESTIGATION
FIELD SURVEYS
AMD/AU
CEOS
AMD
OCEAN &gt
SOUTHERN OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN &gt
MACQUARIE ISLAND
GEOGRAPHIC REGION &gt
POLAR
HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS
Southern Ocean
Heard Island
Heard
McDonald Islands
Macquarie Island
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/marine-plastics-heard-macquarie-island/685314
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Marine_Plastics_Heard_Macquarie
https://data.aad.gov.au/eds/2877/download
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=Marine_Plastics_Heard_Macquarie
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Summary:Monthly beach collections were made by a human observer. Material was classed by infra-red spectroscopy. The values provided in temporal and spatial coverage are approximate only. This project monitored plastics at the four-bays area on Heard Island and at Sandell Bay on Macquarie Island. It characterised plastics by infra-red spectroscopy both from the beach collection and small pieces from fur-seal stomachs and cormorant boluses. The aim was to assess human impact on the ocean by measuring plastic abundance and type.

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