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The European Geoscience Union is carrying its annual meeting from 19^thApril -30^th April. The CRC 1357 microplastics has submitted five contributions to this year’s vEGU21 – we wish our PhD students, Post-Docs and PIs a great presentation, interested audience and good discussions!

• 26 April 13:56-13:58 in Global plastic contamination: a journey towards scientifically informed policies and solutions
  Laboratory and numerical investigation of the factors controlling the residence time of microplastics in the water column of thermally stratified lakes
  Hassan Elagami, Pouyan Ahmadi, Sven Frei, Martin Obst, and Benjamin Gilfedder
  https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15301

• 29 April 11:13-11:15 in Emerging particles and biocolloids in terrestrial and aquatic systems
  Microplastic water repellency impacts water flow and microplastic transport in soils
  Andreas Cramer, Pascal Benard, Anders Kaestner, Mohsen Zare, and Andrea Carminati
  https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-964  
  
  
• 29 Apr, 11:15–11:17 in Emerging particles and biocolloids in terrestrial and aquatic systems
  Spatial analysis of riverine microplastic in a Rhine floodplain soil in Germany
  Markus Rolf, Martin G. J. Löder, Hannes Laermanns, Lukas Kienzler, Florian Steininger, Julia Möller, Christian Laforsch, and Christina Bogner
  https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-2383
  
  
• 29 Apr, 11:27–11:29 in Emerging particles and biocolloids in terrestrial and aquatic systems
  Method and challenges of tracing soil-surface transport of microplastic particles with an advanced-imaging sCMOS camera
  Hannes Laermanns, David Haas, Marcel Klee, Florian Steininger, Martin Löder, and Christina Bogner
  https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-2033
  
  
• 29 April 16:20-16:22 in Plastic in freshwater environments
  Quantifying microplastic particle transport and retention in an experimental flume environment
  Jan-Pascal Boos, Benjamin Gilfedder, and Sven Frei
  https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-14789