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The CRC 1357 Microplastic will contribute with four talks and two posters to this year's Microplastics 2022 in Ascona:

Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Session 3 - Plastics in the aqueous environment: measurements, fate, processes and impacts

• 11.10 – 11.30 Johanna Schmidtmann, University of Bayreuth, Germany
  Heteroaggregation of PS microplastic with ferrihydrite leads to rapid removal of microplastic particles from the water column

Session 4 - Plastics in Terrestrial Ecosystems

• 16.30 – 17.00 Christian Laforsch, University of Bayreuth, Germany
  Invited Talk: "Microplastics in Soils"
• 18.00 – 18.20 Andreas Cramer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  Microplastic water repellency reduced by ferrihydrite coating

Wednesday, 4 November 2022
Session 5 - Plastic analytics: challenges and solutions to measure particles and polymers

• 17.40 – 18.00 Nora Meides, University of Bayreuth, Germany
  Pathways to micro- and nanoplastic: results from accelerated weathering studies

Poster Contributions:

• Poster 25: Teresa Menzel, University of Bayreuth, Germany
  Quantity and composition of microplastic released by macroscopic plastic
• Poster 30: Julia Prume, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
  Towards representative sampling designs: small-scale distribution of microplastics in Lahn River sediments in Gießen, Germany

Link Conference homepage: Microplastics 2022

Link Conference programme: MP2022_Programm