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Altena, Bas
Bastmeijer, Kees
Beelen, Hans
Belgers, Jan
Bilt, Willem van der
Bintanja, Richard
Blaauw, Robert
Boerigter, Daniëlle
Boonman, Jim
Brasseur, Sophie
Brink, Nico van den
Brochard, Christophe
Buiter, Rob
Cooper, Elisabeth
Copper, Jaap
Copper, Adrienne
Desjardins, Sean
Eerden, Arne van

Eerden, Mennobart van
Eijs, Mevrouw
Eijs, Arthur
Ekker, Heleen
Elfrink, Marijke
Elzinga, Hendrik
Enter, Elske van
Evers, Bernadette
Gaag, Belinda van der
Hansen, Brage
Hebel, Frank von
Heuvel, Martine van den
Hilgen, Cecile
Hoek, Wim
Hokwerda, Renno
Hoorn, Martinus van
Huijzer, Tom
Jalink, Leo

Kühn, Susanne
Kanters, Geert
Klarenberg, Ingeborg
Kluijver, Adwin de
Korte, Ko de
Kroef, Dick van der
Krooneman, Janneke
Kruijer, Hans
Kruse, Frigga
Kuile, Liz ter
Kuiper, Jaap
Löff, Annette
Leemans, Eelco
Leeuw, Joep de
Lemoullec, Mathilde
Lihavainen, Heikki
Loonen, Lisette
Loonen, Maarten

Lubberink, Albert
Lubberink, Patricia
Mengedoht, Dirk
Miloch, Wojciech
Mulder, Ingeborg
Nasr, Ramsey
Noël, Brice
Oers, Emil van
Petursdottir, Thora
Proanger, Jitske
Rooke, Wouter
Schartau, Ann Kristin
Scheepstra, Annette
Schilling, Govert
Schreven, Kees
Serail, Paul
Soest, Maud van
Sokolíčková, Zdenka

Stech, Michael
Steenhuisen, Frits
Steg, Linda
Steins, Nathalie
Sztybor, Emilia
Veen, Ivo van
Veraart, Annelies
Verdaat, Hans
Visser, Ronald
Vries, Koos de
Wal, René van der
Want, Han van der
Wiesebron, Lauren



Jim Boonman
VU

scientist
geology


Plastic particles in polar water systems of southeastern Svalbard

We aim to investigate transport and occurrence of microplastics on Edgeøya (Svalbard). We plan to sample soil and surface water at 10-15 locations (including Rosenbergdalen) during the SEES 2022 expedition. In the lab (VU Amsterdam) the samples will be analysed using pyrolysis gas-chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (py-GC-MS) to assess the concentration and identity of microplastics. Py-GC-MS enables the identification of the plastic polymer types and quantifies the total amount of microplastics (per polymer type) in a sample expressed on a mass base (e.g. ng/gram), which is a different, complementary metric to particle counts that are determined using e.g. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) approaches (as in Bergmann et al., 2019). Although the sampling procedure is designed to prevent contamination, possible background contamination is determined by taking and analysing control samples.

In parallel, additional samples will be taken (at the same locations) for organic matter analysis (content, type, quality) to follow up on earlier work performed by Vonk et al. on SEES2015 (Kellerman et al. 2021). To further characterize the presence of chemicals from anthropogenic origin (Chemicals of Emerging Concern), suspect and non-target screening using high resolution mass spectrometry will be done using dedicated workflows incorporating a novel annotation database.
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