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

Atkinson, James A

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2027-03-24

Authors

Atkinson, James A

Date

2024

Supervisor

Dora Marinova

Kliti Grice

Type

Thesis

Award

PhD

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Faculty

Humanities

School

Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97403

Collection

Curtin Theses

Abstract

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 of Lake Gwelup, Western Australia. New tools and methods have been developed and existing techniques have been adapted to support their use by citizen scientists.