Microplastics in seawater: sampling strategies, laboratory methodologies, and identification techniques applied to port environment

Microplastics in the Persian Gulf

Background: Microplastics, as emerging and persistent pollutants, are ubiquitous in different environmental compartments and could be considered an ecological threat to wildlife and humans. Materials and Methods: In the present review article, the existing studies on the presence of microplastics in water, sediments, and aquatic organisms of the Persian Gulf were reviewed with regard to differe...

Methodologies for Metabolomics: Experimental Strategies and Techniques

several new student assessment tools, as well as more than 130 narrated videos to guide reader as they progress through the chapters. Students will gain a broad understanding of biological processes from the latest edition of Essential Cell Biology, which will also help them as they advance to more specialized topics of biology and biomedical research. The complicated nature of small molecules ...

Geostatistical Simulation Techniques Applied to Kimberlite Orebodies and Risk Assessment of Sampling Strategies

Typically a kimberlite diatreme has several different geological zones. The upper portion is generally filled with the sedimentary crater facies, the central zone is more typically an in situ massive series of volcanic breccias and the lower regions comprise a complex root zone. Depending on the local degree of erosion, not all zones remain at any particular kimberlite occurrence. A method of s...

Microplastics Pollution in the Aquatic Environment: Problems and Challenges

Microplastics in the marine environment.

This review discusses the mechanisms of generation and potential impacts of microplastics in the ocean environment. Weathering degradation of plastics on the beaches results in their surface embrittlement and microcracking, yielding microparticles that are carried into water by wind or wave action. Unlike inorganic fines present in sea water, microplastics concentrate persistent organic polluta...