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Laurent Lebreton

@modellinghouse

Numerical modelling, data science and mapping. Currently, studying plastic pollution at sea with The Ocean Cleanup.

 Raglan, New Zealand
themodellinghouse.nz
Joined April 2016
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To help mitigate plastic pollution, we need to know where it is and where it comes from. Laurent Lebreton @modellinghouse overviews the oceanic garbage patches in this Comment nature.com/articles/s43017-0… free: rdcu.be/cZjOP
Left side: global map showing locations of the five ocean garbage patches. Right side: graph of the mass concentration versus number of pieces for the patches.

ALT Left side: global map showing locations of the five ocean garbage patches. Right side: graph of the mass concentration versus number of pieces for the patches.

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BREAKING: Our study, published today in @SciReports, reveals that 75% — 86% (by weight) of plastic debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) comes from fishing activities at sea. (1/6)
System 002 catch on deck.

ALT System 002 catch on deck.

Catch from System 002 from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, including eel trap (black cone), fishing nets, crate, ropes.

ALT Catch from System 002 from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, including eel trap (black cone), fishing nets, crate, ropes.

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PLOS Biology@PLOSBiology15 Sep 2021
Pollution from #microplastics & anthropogenic fibres threatens lakes, but what determines its accumulation? Survey of 67 lakes shows that economic & environmental factors predict #microparticle pollution @ecochangegroup @modellinghouse &co #PLOSBiology plos.io/3Ai2Pm0
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I am delighted to share with you one of our latest publication in @naturesustainab nature.com/articles/s41893-0… marinelitterlab.eu #MarinePollution #marinelitter
Image from Carmen Morales Caselles (@padina_)
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Matthias Egger@oceanegger5 Nov 2020
Excited to share our new study published today @IOPPublishing, in which we show that microplastics are not equally missing from the sea surface in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab…
Image from Matthias Egger (@oceanegger)
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Our comprehensive review on #ocean #plastic dispersal led by @ErikvanSebille🙏🏾is out: The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine #debris @IOPscience @klavlaw @wichm_d @StefanoAliani @Giuseppe_Suaria @oceanegger @sptwee @modellinghouse 👇🏿 doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab…
Image from Dr. Melanie Bergmann 🐘MBergmann🐘mstdn.social (@MelanieBergma18)
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Scientific Reports
@SciReports15 Jun 2019
Laurent Lebreton, @modellinghouse, has shared how his highly-cited article on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch came about in an exclusive interview #climatechange #microplastics go.nature.com/2wVrRsf
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Something to think about before you grab your cup of coffee ☕🤔 #noexcuseforsingleuse #breakfreefromplastic
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Today, we published our results on the analysis of hyper-spectral imagery collected during our 2016 Aerial Expedition above the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in Environmental Science & Technology theoceancleanup.com/updates/…

Remote Sensing of Ocean Plastics | Updates

Today, our results on the analysis of hyperspectral imagery collected during our 2016 Aerial Expedition above the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) were published in the scientific journal Environ...

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The Guardian
@guardian12 Apr 2018
New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of 'carbon-neutral future' trib.al/y7ovmpB
New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of 'carbon-neutral future'

New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of 'carbon-neutral future'

Prime minister Jacinda Ardern says move ‘will essentially take effect in 30 or more years’ time’

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UN Environment Programme
@UNEP27 Mar 2018
New research from @theoceancleanup: Great Pacific Garbage Patch four to 16 times bigger than previously thought, comprising an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of rubbish. #CleanSeas nyti.ms/2G1awRj
The ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ Is Ballooning, 87,000 Tons of Plastic and Counting (Published...

The ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ Is Ballooning, 87,000 Tons of Plastic and Counting (Published...

Floating between California and Hawaii, the trash zone is up to 16 times bigger than previously thought, a new study suggests, and is growing "exponentially."

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Julia Reisser@julia_reisser29 Nov 2016
#Ocean #plastic sizes in the so-called #PlasticSmog or #PlasticSoup is a manner of perspective. #TOCAerialExpedition pic; 400m height
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Jo Cabo@jocabo9914 Nov 2016
Maximum computed #tsunami heights from last night's earthquake. #kaikoura #earthquake @eCoast_nz
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BREAKING NEWS: BP BACKS OUT OF BIGHT. We won. BP has dropped its plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight. bit.ly/2dQowAB
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A small selection of the very large objects we observed with the Aerial Expedition inside the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat3 Oct 2016
Here's what a ghost net looks like from the airplane. Crew observed >1000 very large objects in about 2 hrs, and this was just edge of patch
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Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat26 Sep 2016
Meanwile visual survey team is using a couch to practice comms protocols
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Vox
@voxdotcom30 May 2016
The combined weight of plastic in the ocean amounts to more than 38,000 African elephants. bit.ly/1OLEZjJ
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Oceana
@oceana20 Apr 2016
Incredible satellite images of the ocean's currents bit.ly/1NBf6Tl
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