Working Group 42: Indicators of Marine Plastic Pollution
Motivation and Goals:
Marine debris is increasingly recognized as a threat to biota in the ocean, and especially North Pacific and its marginal seas are reported as ‘hot spots’ for its abundance. However, organismal and non-organismal indicators, which are consistently available across the North Pacific region, for plastic pollution status and trend and ecological impacts are not established.
Terms of Reference
  1. To review pollution (e.g. abundance, distribution, composition, and potential impacts) across different size categories in the North Pacific and its marginal seas;
  2. To identify multiple organismal and non-organismal indicators of plastic pollution and its environmental impacts including associated chemicals in the North Pacific and its marginal seas;
  3. To recommend guidelines for monitoring environmental indicators and a target improvement goal for the established indicators;
  4. To convene a topic session and/or workshop on environmental indicators and impacts of plastic pollution and coordinate a special issue in an international peer-reviewed journal;
  5. Contribute to FUTURE by publishing a final report summarizing results of the Working Group deliberations.
Products
Annual Meetings

Reports

2021, 2020, 2019

Session and Workshop Summaries

PICES-2021:
S8, Using environmental indicators to assess baselines, targets, and risk of plastic pollution in the North Pacific

PICES-2019:
S7, Environmental indicators of plastic pollution in the North Pacific

PICES Scientific Report
TBA
Journal Papers
Savoca, M.S., et al.
Towards a North Pacific Ocean long-term monitoring program for plastic pollution: A review and recommendations for plastic ingestion bioindicators.
Environmental Pollution, Vol. 310, 1 Oct. 2022, 119861

Uhrin, A.V., Hong, S., Burgess, H.K., Lim, S. and Dettloff, K.
Towards a North Pacific long-term monitoring program for ocean plastic pollution: A systematic review and recommendations for shorelines.
Environmental Pollution, Vol. 310, 1 Oct. 2022, 119862

Shim, W.J., Kim, S.K., Lee, J., Eo, S., Kim, J.S. and Sun, C.
Toward a long-term monitoring program for seawater plastic pollution in the north Pacific Ocean: Review and global comparison.
Environmental Pollution, Vol. 311, 15 Oct. 2022, 119911
Related Materials
PICES-2018 SG-MMP Report
Study Group on Marine Microplastics

PICES Sci. Rep. No. 56, 2020
Report of Working Group 31 on Emerging Topics in Marine Pollution

PICES Sci. Rep. No. 46, 2014
Report of the Study Group on Marine Pollutants
News
  • Changes within Working Group 42 Membership (Russia) Dr. Iana Blinovskaia and Mr. Nikolai Kozlovskii are newly appointed member of WG-42.
    2/1/2021 9:40:49 AM PST
  • Changes within Working Group 42 Membership (Canada): Dr. Sarah Dudas is a new member of WG-42 representing Canada.
    7/30/2020 8:40:02 PM PST
  • Changes within Working Group 42 Membership (Canada): Dr. Jennifer Provencher is a new member of WG-42.
    7/23/2020 2:10:40 PM PST
  • Changes within Working Group 42 Membership (USA, China): Drs. Jennifer Lynch (USA) and Chengjun Sun (China) have been appointed as Co-Chairs of WG-42.
    6/6/2019 8:30:25 AM PST
  • Changes within Working Group 42 Membership (China): Profs. Daoji Li and Juying Wang, and Drs. Connie NG and Chengjun Sun are nominated members of WG-42 representing China.
    5/15/2019 10:22:14 AM PST

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Members
Dr. Sarah Dudas (WG-42)
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Pacific Biological Station
3190 Hammond Bay Rd.
Nanaimo, BC
Canada V9T 6N7
1-250-756-3365
Sarah.Dudas@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Dr. Jennifer F Provencher (WG-42)
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Science and Technology Branch
National Wildlife Research Centre C/O Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive, Raven Road
Ottawa, ON
Canada K1A 0H3
1-819-955-1399
jennifer.provencher@ec.gc.ca
Dr. Peter S. Ross (MEQ, WG-42)
Coastal Ocean Research Institute
Pacific Science Enterprise Centre
4160 Marine Drive
West Vancouver, BC
Canada V7V 1H2
1-604 659-3517
peterross1741@gmail.com
Dr. Kazuhiko Mochida (WG-42)
Environmental Conservation Division, Environment and Fisheries Applied Techniques Research Department, Fisheries Technology Institute
Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency (FRA)
2-17-5 Maruishi
Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima
Japan 739-0452
+81-829-55-3764
(81-829) 54-1216
kmochida@fra.affrc.go.jp
Prof. Hideshige Takada (WG-42)
Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
3-5-8 Saiwaicho
Fuchu, Tokyo
Japan 183-8509
(81-42) 367-5825
(81-42) 360-8264
shige@cc.tuat.ac.jp
Dr. Shuhei Tanaka (WG-42)
Department of Technology Ecology, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies
Kyoto University
Yoshidahonmachi, Sakyo-ku
Kyoto, Japan 606-8501
+81-75-753-5171
t-shuhei@eden.env.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Prof. Daoji Li (WG-42)
State Key laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research
East China Normal University
500 Dongchuan Rd.
Shanghai, People's Republic of China 200241
(86-21) 54836458
(86-21) 54836458
daojili@sklec.ecnu.edu.cn
Dr. Connie Ka-yan NG (WG-42)
Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory in Marine Pollution
City University of Hong Kong
Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, 83 Tat Chee Avenue
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
People's Republic of China 0000
(852) 3442 6504
kayan.ng.connie@gmail.com
Dr. Chengjun Sun (FUTURE-SSC, WG-42)
WG-42 Co-Chair
Marine Bioresource and Environment Research Center
First Institute of Oceanography (MNR)
6 Xianxialing Rd., Hi-Tech Park, LaoShan District
Qingdao, People's Republic of China 266061
+86-532-88963310
csun@fio.org.cn
Prof. Juying Wang (WG-42)
42 Linghe St., Shahekou District
Dalian, Liaoning
People's Republic of China 116023
+86-411-84782526
jywang@nmemc.org.cn
Dr. Sang Hee Hong (WG-42)
Oil and POPs Research Group
Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST)
41 Jangmok-1-gil, Jangmok-myon
Geoje, Republic of Korea 53201
+82-55-639-8674
shhong@kiost.ac.kr
Dr. Miran Kim (S-MBM, WG-42)
S-MBM Co-Chair
Seabirds Lab. of Korea
Sinpyeong-ro 155-2, Jijeong-myeon
Wonju-si, Gangwon-do
Republic of Korea 26352
01031611528
seabirds.lab.korea@gmail.com
Prof. Seung-Kyu Kim (WG-42)
Department of Marine Science
Incheon National University
119 Academy-ro, Yeonsu-gu
Incheon, Republic of Korea 22012
(82-32) 835-8862
skkim@inu.ac.kr
Dr. Wonjoon Shim (WG-42)
Risk Assessment Research Center
Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST)
41 Jangmok-1-gil, Jangmok-myon
Geoje, Republic of Korea 656-834
(82-55) 639-8671
(82-55) 639-8677
wjshim@kiost.ac.kr
Dr. Iana Blinovskaia (WG-42)
Safety in Emergency Situation and Environmental Protection
Far Eastern Federal University
8 Sukhnova St.
Vladivostok, Russia 690003
+74232754001
+74232754001
blinovskaya@hotmail.com
Mr. Nikolai Kozlovskii (WG-42)
Pacific Geographical Institute FEB RAS
7 Radio St.
Vladivostok, Russia 690041
(7-4232) 312833
Nkozlovsky12@mail.ru
Dr. Jennifer M Lynch (WG-42)
WG-42 Co-Chair
Center for Marine Debris Research
National Institute of Standards and Technology
41-202 Kalanianaole Hwy
Waimanalo, HI
U.S.A. 96795
1-808-236-3582
jennifer.lynch@nist.gov
Dr. Matthew Savoca (AP-ECOP, MEQ, WG-42)
Department of Oceans, Hopkins Marine Station
Stanford University
120 Ocean View Blvd.
Pacific Grove, CA
U.S.A. 93950
7184909356
msavoca13@gmail.com
Dr. Amy V. Uhrin (WG-42)
NOAA
Marine Debris Program
1305 East-West Highway, SSMC4, Room 10240
Silver Spring, MD
U.S.A. 20910
+1-240-687-9436
amy.uhrin@noaa.gov