PO14A:
Detection, Analysis, and Modeling of the Distribution and Transport of Oceanic Debris II Posters


Session ID#: 27646

Session Description:
An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste generated on land entered the oceans in 2010, a figure that does not include debris from natural disasters, lost shipping cargo, or derelict fishing gear. Floating debris is a hazard to navigation and poses risks to marine animals and the marine ecosystem. Although contamination by man-made debris is increasingly reported in marine habitats around the world, major gaps remain in understanding the sources, distribution and transport of oceanic debris.

In this session we invite presentations on topics that inform understanding of the distribution and dispersion of oceanic debris of all materials and sizes, including:

  • ocean and shelf-sea dynamics at a variety of scales that distribute debris horizontally or vertically;
  • the dynamics of buoyant objects in turbulent ocean flow;
  • data on characteristics of debris that affect its transport (e.g., size, shape, windage, etc.);
  • advances in modeling of debris transport, from coastal regions to the open ocean; and
  • assessments of remote sensing tools for detection of floating debris.
Primary Chair:  Kara L Lavender Law, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  Stefano Aliani, Institute of Marine Sciences CNR, La Spezia, Italy, Erik van Sebille, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands and Nikolai A Maximenko, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Moderators:  Kara L Lavender Law, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Stefano Aliani, Institute of Marine Sciences CNR, La Spezia, Italy, Nikolai A Maximenko, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Erik van Sebille, Imperial College London, Grantham Institute, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Kara L Lavender Law, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Index Terms:

4251 Marine pollution [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4255 Numerical modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4275 Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • CD - Coastal Dynamics
  • IS - Ocean Observatories, Instrumentation and Sensing Technologies
  • OM - Ocean Modeling

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Pathways and Fate of 2011 Tsunami Debris from Japan Derived with Synthesis of Oceanographic Models and Opportunistic Observational Reports (325730)
Nikolai A Maximenko, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Jan Hafner, IPRC/SOEST U. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, Masafumi Kamachi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan and Amoreena MacFadyen, NOAA, Office of Response & Restoration, Seattle, WA, United States
Origin and fate of surface drift in the convergence zones of the subtropical Pacific Ocean (310036)
Christophe Maes, Institute of Research for Development, Brest, France, Bruno Blanke, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Brest, France and Elodie Claire Martinez, Environnement Insulaire Océanien (EIO), IRD, Ifremer, UPF and ILM, Faa'a, French Polynesia
A data-trained advection-diffusion model to simulate transport of passive particles at the ocean surface (302540)
Rick Lumpkin, NOAA Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Making virtual particles behave like plastic: developing the OceanParcels Lagrangian Ocean Analysis framework (308417)
Erik van Sebille1, Michael Lange2 and Philippe Delandmeter1, (1)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Inertia-induced accumulation of flotsam in the subtropical gyres (310912)
Francisco J Beron-Vera, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Maria Josefina Olascoaga, RSMAS - UMiami, Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States and Rick Lumkin, NOAA, AOML, Miami, FL, United States
High Resolution Measurements of Clustering and Dispersion in Langmuir Cells (316129)
Henry Chang1, Helga Huntley2, A. D. Kirwan Jr1, Daniel F Carlson3, Guillaume Novelli4, Baylor Fox-Kemper5 and CARTHE LASER Team, (1)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Newark, United States, (3)Florida State University, Dept. of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (4)RSMAS, FL, United States, (5)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
Quantity of Plastic Debris on the Seafloor Offshore of the Northeast United States (323943)
Jessica Leigh Donohue1, Kara L Lavender Law1, Naiff David Bethoney2 and Kevin D. E. Stokesbury2, (1)Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, School for Marine Science and Technology, New Bedford, MA, United States
Tracking of floating debris from rivers around Korea (309747)
Young-Gyu Park, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Ocean Circulation and Climate Research Center, Busan, South Korea and Seongbong Seo, KIOST, Ocean Circulation and Climate Research Center, Ansan, Korea, Republic of (South)
Microplastics in the Delaware Bay: A Seasonal Comparison (311360)
Anna Internicola1, Haley Glos1 and Jonathan Cohen2, (1)University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Lewes, DE, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Lewes, DE, United States
Sources of Small Marine Plastics Delineated on Florida Beaches (309617)
Alanna Lecher, Gaylen Martin and Elizabeth Harris, Lynn University, Natural and Applied Sciences, Boca Raton, FL, United States

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