Cetacean Sightings within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Scientific note
April 2019, Marine Biodiversity

Susan E. Gibbs, Chandra P. Salgado Kent, Boyan Slat, Damien Morales, Leila Fouda and Julia Reisser

Future Scenarios of Global Plastic Waste Generation and Disposal

Article in peer reviewed journal
January 2019, Nature, Palgrave Communications

Laurent Lebreton and Anthony Andrady

A Methodology to Characterize Riverine Macroplastic Emission Into the Ocean

Article in peer-reviewed journal
October 2018, Frontiers in Marine Science

Tim van Emmerik, Thuy-Chung Kieu-Le, Michelle Loozen, Kees van Oeveren, Emilie Strady, Xuan-Thanh Bui, Matthias Egger, Johnny Gasperi, Laurent Lebreton, Phuoc-Dan Nguyen, Anna Schwarz, Boyan Slat and Bruno Tassin

Sensing Ocean Plastics with an Airborne Hyperspectral Shortwave IR Imager

Article in peer reviewed journal
September 2018, Environmental Science & Technologys

Shungudzemwoyo P. Garaba, Jen Aitken, Boyan Slat, Heidi M. Dierssen, Laurent Lebreton, Oliver Zielinski and Julia Reisser

Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is Rapidly Accumulating Plastic

Article in peer reviewed journal
March 2018, Scientific Reports

Laurent CM Lebreton, Boyan Slat, Francesco Ferrari, Bruno Sainte-Rose, Jen Aitken, Bob Marthouse, Sara Hajbane, Serena Cunsolo, Anna Schwarz, Aurore Levivier, Kim Noble, Pavla Debeljak, Hanna Maral, Rosanna Schoeneich-Argent, Roberto Brambini and Julia Reisser

Pollutants in Plastics within the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

Article in peer reviewed journal
December 2017, Environmental Science & Technology

Qiqing Chen, Julia Reisser, Serena Cunsolo, Christiaan Kwadijk, Michiel Kotterman, Maira Proietti, Boyan Slat, Francesco F. Ferrari, Anna Schwarz, Aurore Levivier, Daqiang Yin, Henner Hollert and Albert A. Koelmans

Quantification of Medium and Large Debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Using Visual Observations from Aerial Surveys

Technical Report
September 24, 2017

Salgado Kent C, Reisser J, Gibbs SE, Fouda L, Morales D and Kniest H

River Plastic Emissions to the World’s Oceans

Article in peer reviewed journal
June 2017, Nature Communications

Laurent C. M. Lebreton, Joost van der Zwet, Jan-Willem Damsteeg, Boyan Slat, Anthony Andrady and Julia Reisser

Using Numerical Model Simulations to Improve the Understanding of Micro-plastic Distribution and Pathways in the Marine Environment

Article in peer reviewed journal
January 2017, Frontiers Marine Sciences

Britta D. Hardesty, Joseph Harari, Atsuhiko Isobe, Laurent Lebreton, Nikolai Maximenko, James T. Potemra, Erik van Sebille, Dick Vethaak and Chris Wilcox

Extracting DNA from ocean microplastics: a method comparison study

Article in peer reviewed journal
November 2016, Analytical Methods 9

Pavla Debeljak, Maria Pinto, Julia Reisser, Francesco F. Ferrari, Ben Abbas, Mark C. M. van Loosdrecht, Boyan Slat and Gerhard J. Herndl

The Effect of Particle Properties on the Depth Profile of Buoyant Plastics in the Ocean

Article in peer-reviewed journal
October 2016, Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 33882

Merel Kooi, Julia Reisser, Boyan Slat, Francesco F. Ferrari, Moritz S. Schmid, Serena Cunsolo, Roberto Brambini, Kimberly Noble, Lys-Anne Sirks, Theo E. W. Linders, Rosanna I. Schoeneich-Argent and Albert A. Koelmans

The vertical distribution of buoyant plastics at sea

Article in peer-reviewed journal
February 2015, Biogeosciences 12

Julia Reisser, Boyan Slat, Kim Noble, K. du Plessis, Meredith Epp, Maira Proietti, Jan de Sonneville, Thomas Becker and Charitha Pattiaratchi

Hydrodynamics and Capture Efficiency of Plastic Cleanup Booms: Part 1, Experiments and Dynamic Analysis

Conference with peer-reviewed proceedings
February 2017, ASME International Conference on Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engineering

Roberto Brambini, Benedicte Dommergues, Hannah Maral and Bruno Sainte-Rose

Hydrodynamics and Capture Efficiency of Plastic Cleanup Booms: Part II, 2D Vertical Capture Efficiency and CFD Validation

Conference with peer reviewed proceedings
February 2017, ASME International Conference on Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engineering

Benedicte Dommergues, Roberto Brambini, Rene Mettler, Zaki Abiza and Bruno Sainte-Rose

Multi-scale Numerical Analysis of the Field Efficiency of an Ocean Plastic Cleanup Array

Conference with peer-reviewed proceedings
June 2016, ASME International Conference on Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engineering

Bruno Sainte-Rose, Laurent Lebreton, Joao Lima Rego, Frank Kleissen and Julia Reisser

Modelling floating plastic origin, transport and accumulation in the world’s ocean

Conference presentation
March 2017, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography

Laurent C. M. Lebreton, Julia Reisser and Bruno Sainte-Rose

Challenges in modelling detailed surface circulation on the Korea / Tsushima Strait

Conference presentation
February 2016, Ocean Sciences Meeting

Joao Lima Rego, Firmin Zijl, Bruno Sainte-Rose, Frank Kleissen and Wouter Kranenbourg

How the oceans can clean themselves: a feasibility study

Independently published book
June 2014, The Ocean Cleanup

Boyan Slat et al.