Advances in Plastic Pollution Monitoring across the Geosphere

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the upcoming EGU 2025 session ITS3.19/HS12.4: Advances in Plastic Pollution Monitoring across the Geosphere (see abstract below), which will take place at the EGU General Assembly Conference from 27 April – 2 May 2025 in Vienna, Austria, and online. Here the link to the session: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/54046

The deadline for abstract submissions is 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET. Guidelines for submission can be found here: https://www.egu25.eu/programme/how_to_submit.html

EGU offers financial support options for students, scientists from low- and middle-income countries, individuals with caregiving responsibilities, and those undergoing career transitions. Moreover, eligible participants can apply for travel support until 2 December 2024, 13:00 CET. You can explore these opportunities here: https://www.egu25.eu/guidelines/supports_and_waivers.html

We look forward to your participation and contributions!

Best regards,
Session Conveners

Tim van Emmerik (Wageningen University and Research)
Rahel Hauk (Wageningen University and Research)
Gabriela Escobar-Sánchez (Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde/ Klaipeda University)
Liesbeth De Keukelaere (VITO)

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ITS3.19/HS12.4 Advances in plastic pollution monitoring across the Geosphere

Plastic pollution is ubiquitous in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. Reliable data on plastic abundance and fluxes are crucial to study its sources, sinks, transport dynamics, and impact. Furthermore, long-term and large-scale monitoring is required to design, implement, and assess plastic pollution prevention and reduction measures. In this session we invite contributions that present recent advances in plastic pollution monitoring across the entire Geosphere (atmosphere, land surface, soil, rivers, estuaries, oceans and beyond). Presentations may focus on:
• Novel monitoring methods, including advanced techniques (e.g. remote sensing, multi/hyperspectral cameras, acoustic sensors, artificial intelligence);
• Monitoring strategies, including large-scale and long-term efforts, and citizen science approaches;
• All plastic size ranges, from nano to macro;
• Baseline studies to assess current plastic pollution levels;
• Long-term trends or recent discoveries based on plastic monitoring data.
With this session we aim to bring together scientists that work on novel approaches to provide reliable data on environmental plastic pollution.

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