Plastic Pollution Action Team Publications
Updated (2022) Ecological Risk Assessment
Published on November 30, 2022Microplastic Monitoring & Science Strategy for the Chesapeake Bay
The Plastic Pollution Action Team (PPAT) was formed at the directive of the CBP Management Board and was charged to develop a preliminary ecological risk assessment model (Appendix C), in addition to a size classification document (Appendix B), and this science strategy. Many of the topics from those first two documents are found in this document to formulate a strategy to address microplastics bay-wide.
View detailsUniform Size Classification and Concentration Unit Terminology (for Microplastics)
Uniform Size Classification and Concentration Unit Terminology for Broad Application in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
View detailsEcological Risk Assessment For Microplastics
PRELIMINARY CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR AN ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR MICROPLASTICS ON STRIPED BASS IN THE POTOMAC RIVER ESTUARY
View detailsSTAC Report on Microplastics in the Chesapeake Bay and its Watershed
Final report from April 2019 STAC workshop Microplastics in the Chesapeake Bay and its Watershed: State of the Knowledge, Data Gaps, and Relationship to Management Goals.
View detailsCharge for the Plastic Pollution Action Team
Charge from the Chesapeake Bay Program Management Board and STAR to the Plastic Pollution Action Team.
View detailsLinkages between microplastics and Chesapeake Bay Program Agreement Goals
Ecological risk of microplastics to wildlife is an ongoing area of research and the Plastic Pollution Action Team (PPAT) recommends that future research should focus on trophic linkages, mortality rates, and other biological effects of microplastics on Chesapeake Bay wildlife. Furthermore, microplastic pollution has the potential to adversely affect efforts at meeting goals and outcomes outlined in the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Agreement. Here we present potential impacts, some speculative and without data to support it, to outcomes for the Agreement.
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