Small MICROplastics (<100 µm) bioindicaToRs in a changing ArctiC EnviRonment (MICROTRACER)

• Main Authors: Vitale, Giulia, Vardè, Massimiliano, Caruso, Gabriella, Corami, Fabiani, Rosso, Beatrice, Gregoris, Elena, Iannilli, Valentina, Trotta, Claudia, Lecce, Francesca, Bogialli, Sara, Litti, Lucio, Oliverio, Marco, Setini, Andrea
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: CNR-ISP 2022
• Subjects: Settore BIO/07 - Ecologia; Settore CHIM/05 - Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali Polimerici; Settore BIO/19 - Microbiologia Generale; Arctic; Krossfjorden; Teisten; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden; Krossfjord*
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10278/5029460; https://doi.org/10.53132/CNR-ISP.2022.REP.SCI.BIO.ART.1

This report refers on fieldwork activity done in August-September 2022 in the framework of the project MICROTRACER (PRA_0005). Sediment samples were collected from 10 sites, located across Krossfjorden and Kongsfjorden, on board of MS Teisten with a grab or manually from the coast. Amphipods were sampled in front of Ny-Alesund harbour and in the coast of the Loven Islands using a hand net. Sediment and Amphipod samples were pre-processed at the Dirigibile Italia laboratories for further chemical and bacteriological analyses to be performed in Italy.