Tools and Methods for Citizens’ Involvement in Microplastics Mapping of Ephemeral Wetlands: The Case Study of Lake Gwelup
(Perth, Western Australia)

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Tools and Methods for Citizens’ Involvement in Microplastics Mapping of Ephemeral Wetlands: The Case Study of Lake Gwelup (Perth, Western Australia)

The research is deployed as a case study, tracking the development of tools and methods and their use, in the first instance to discover the presence of microplastics in an ephemeral wetland. Plastics in sizes as small as 15µm have been recovered and characterised from sampling points in the benthos...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Atkinson, James A
Format:	Thesis
Published:	Curtin University 2024
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97403

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