Marine litter

Conservation & Management

Description

Distribution, sources, monitoring and effects of litter and plastics in the marine environment, from beaches to the deep sea, including ingestion and entanglement.

Coordinators 1

Christopher Pham Assistant researcher

Publications · By the members of this line 96

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment · 198(9)

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Transboundary plastic pollution from North American lobster fisheries reaches Atlantic Islands

Pham, CK Vargas, D

Medeiros, V Pereira, JM

Rodríguez, Y and 4 others

Aug 2026

Endangered Species Research · 59

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Marine debris entanglements and associated impacts in megafauna across the open NE Atlantic Ocean

Rodríguez, Y

Vandeperre, F

Parra, H

Machete, M

Fontes, J

Pham, CK and 1 others

Apr 2026

Environmental Pollution · 390

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Assessment of plasticizer contamination in sicklefin devil rays (Mobula tarapacana) from the remote Azores Archipelago

Schaffeld, L Ortega-Zamora, C González-Sálamo, J

Pham, CK

Fontes, J and 3 others

Feb 2026

Ecological Indicators · 181

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Remote but not isolated; an integrated ecosystem assessment across the marine ecosystem of the Azores

Gomes, I Serrano, D

Pham, C Afonso, P

Cited 2 Dec 2025

Marine Pollution Bulletin · 221

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Out of sight, but not out of mind: Key issues regarding seafloor macrolitter monitoring

Hanke, G Canals, M Nakajima, R Bergmann, M

Pham, CK and 36 others

Cited 9 Dec 2025

Projects 13

microGASP

2026 – 2029 · FCT

PIRATE

2025 – 2028 · FEDER

Mission Blue Plastic

2022 – 2023 · Privado

Fieldwork done 2

Missão SEAGHOST

24 Feb 2025 · Ilhéu da Praia, Graciosa

64PE442 cruise (Microplastics Transit Cruise)

26 Jul – 7 Aug 2018

Financiado por fundos nacionais através da FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., no âmbito dos projetos UID/05634/2025 (DOI: 10.54499/UID/05634/2025), UID/PRR/05634/2025 (DOI: 10.54499/UID/PRR/05634/2025) e UID/PRR2/05634/2025 (DOI: 10.54499/UID/PRR2/05634/2025).

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