Microplastic concentration and composition in surface waters of the Weddell Sea, Antarctica

Dataset

DOI

The dataset provides information about the microplastic contamination in surface waters of the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Samples (n = 34) were collected during two expeditions on RV Polarstern, PS111 (2018) and PS117 (2018/2019), to the Antarctic Weddell Sea, taking place during austral summer. Samples were collected with a surface trawl (manta trawl; 5gyres Institute, Los Angeles, California; 60 x18 cm² rectangular aperture) equipped with a 300 µm mesh and a mechanical flowmeter. On average 234.6 (±83.7 SD) m³ of seawater were filtered per sample (total filtered volume: 7974 m³). Putative microplastic particles were sorted visually under a dissecting microscope (magnification 6.7-45x) and analyzed by means of by attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy.

Identifier
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.941076
Related Identifier	References https://doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0732_2019
Related Identifier	References https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c05207
Related Identifier	References https://doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0718_2018
Metadata Access	https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.941076

Provenance
Creator	Leistenschneider, Clara
Publisher	PANGAEA
Publication Year	2023
Funding Reference	Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003207 Crossref Funder ID AWI_PS111_00 Microplastics - A Potential Threat to the Remote and Pristine Ecosystems of the Antarctic Seas?; Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003207 Crossref Funder ID AWI_PS117_04 Occurrence of microplastics in the Weddell Sea, Southern Ocean
Rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess	true

Representation
Resource Type	Dataset
Format	text/tab-separated-values
Size	1122 data points
Discipline	Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage	(-56.015W, -77.308S, 11.765E, -38.605N); South Atlantic Ocean; Lazarev Sea; Weddell Sea; Scotia Sea
Temporal Coverage Begin	2018-01-26T05:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End	2019-02-12T08:00:00Z