Confirmed participants

Stefano Aliani, CNR-ISMAR, Italy, "Stripes of plastics floating on the ocean"

Alberto Baudena, CNR-ISMAR, Italy, "The pathways of plastic beneath the Mediterranean Sea surface"

Francois Blanchette, UC Merced, USA, "Hydrodynamics Forces and Formation Mechanisms of Marine Aggregates"

Luca Brandt, KTH, Switzerland, "Transport of buoyant microplastic particles in the ocean: The role of turbulence and biofouling"

Daniel Carlson, Hereon, Germany, "Detecting intermittent surface convergence zones using aerial and satellite remote sensing and ship-borne X-band radar"

Claudia Cenedese, WHOI, USA

Sara Cloux, CSIC-UIB, Spain, "Mapping the Pathways of Marine Litter: Insights from 3D Ocean Trajectories and Vertical Dynamics"

Marco De Paoli, TU Wein, Austria, "Influence of shear Reynolds number on the transport and dynamics of microplastic fibres in turbulent channel flow"

Michael Denes, Utrecht U, Netherlands, "PlasticParcels – a ready-to-use tool for plastic dispersion simulations and parameterization development"

Michelle DiBenedetto, U Washington, USA, "Sunlight and microplastics: how ocean surface dynamics control particle light exposure"

Michael Dotzel, MIT, USA, "Laboratory Experiments on Rigid Particle Aggregation in an Ekman-driven Can Flow"

Rama Govindarajan, ICTS, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, "Aspects of small-particle clustering"

Chisa Higuchi, Kyushu U, Japan, "How much should we reduce plastic waste emission to avoid additional ocean plastic pollution by 2050s"

Matthew Hoffman, Rochester Inst of Tech, USA, "Modeling and measuring fate and shoreline deposition of microplastic in North American Lakes"

Atsuhiko Isobe, Kyushu U., Japan, "A database of microplastic abundance across the world’s upper ocean"

Quentin Kriaa, U Twente, Netherlands, "Transport and settling of microplastics in turbidity currents"

Tobias Kukulka, U Delaware, USA, "Mean Horizontal Transport of Buoyant Material by Turbulent Jets in the Upper Ocean"

Mao Kuroda, Kyushu U, Japan, "Small microplastics detected in the intermediate layer in the North Pacific Ocean: field surveys and possible pathways"

Adrien Lefauve, U Cambridge, England, "An experimental testbed for environmental stratified turbulence and mixing"

Eckart Meiburg, UC Santa Barbara, USA, "Exploring flocculation and transport processes of cohesive particulate matter via particle-resolving simulations"

Jessamy Mol, TU Delft, Netherlands, "A laboratory study of wave-induced transport in a rotating wave flume"

Andrea Paluselli,  CNR-ISMAR, Italy, "Vertical distribution and transport of textile microfibers (MFs) in the Mediterranean water column"

Vincente Perez-Munuzuri, U Santiago de Compostela. Spain, "Modeling Fragmentation of Plastic Particles"

Larry Pratt, WHOI, USA, "Attraction and Accumulation of Microplastics in 3D Flows under Maxey-Riley Dynamics"

Nimish Pujara, U Wisconsin-Madison, USA, "Coastal transport and beaching of microplastics"

Alfredo Soldati, TU Wein, Austria, "Full rotational dynamics of plastic microfibers in turbulence 

Giuseppe Suaria, CNS-ISMAR, Italy

Laura Sunberg, Colorado State, USA, "Impacts of microplastic properties on transport by coastal flows"

Bruce Sutherland, U. Alberta, Canada

Mine Tekman, Alfred Wegener Inst, Germany, "Sources, Sinks and Transportation Pathways of Microplastic in the Arctic"

Gautier Verhille, IRPHE, France, "Dynamics of deformable particles in turbulent flows"

Andrew Woods, U Cambridge, England, "Experiments on Microplastic-Sediment Interaction"