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Marine microlitter
–proposal for data management with
CDIs and ODVs –
Matteo Vinci
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Marine microlitter
reference: Guidance on Monitoring of Marine Litter in European Seas 2013
MSFD Technical Subgroup on Marine Litter
Marine Microlitter: Section 4.4 of the MSFD descriptor 10 Microplastics
‘’Amount, distribution and composition of microparticles. The attribute will establish
baseline quantities, properties and potential impacts of microparticles. Microplastic is likely
to be the most significant part of this.’’
Also other materials…
Microparticles of a range of common material types including glass, metal, plastic and
paper litter are undoubtedly present in the environment…
…but relative proportions of material types will be influenced by the physical conditions of
the habitat sampled, for example metal and glass microlitter is not likely to be found at
the sea surface. (from manta and bongo nets surveys)
Dimensions:
When first described the term microplastic was used to refer to truly microscopic particles
in the region of 20 μm (micrometers 1 µm = 1 × 10−6 m) diameter (Thompson et al.
2004).
The definition has been broadened to include all particles < 5 mm (Arthur et al. 2009).
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Marine microlitter
Examples of files/formats received
• CEFAS  we received a 3 tabs xls file :
• with information about the survey in the 1st tab
• and summary statistics in the others
• IFREMER we received a 1 tab xls file
• Italian environmental agency (ARPA FVG)  we received a 4 tabs xls file
with
• 1st legenda
• 2nd stations descriptions
• 3rd physical-chemical parameters
• 4th plastics info
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Marine microlitter
Microlitter: (Guidance on Monitoring of Marine Litter in European Seas 2013
MSFD Technical Subgroup on Marine Litter)
Type+
Shapes
Count of particles is mandatory following MSFD requirements
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Marine microlitter
1st TWG Venice April 2017 discussed possible handling of common surveyed
information in the different initiatives.
General principles:
• CDIs  including microlitter information in the available CDI profile fields
• ODVs a “bio-ODV like” file with:
• ODV mandatory (ODV default) fields like: cruise, station, type,
position…(green)
• ODV additional selected fields (Guidance on Monitoring of Marine Litter
in European Seas 2013, CEFAS, IFREMER, ARPA FVG) to describe marine
microlitter (orange):
• additional mandatory: fields will be always present in ODV file and
always filled (category, count,… )
• additional optional: fields will be always present in ODV file but could
be empty (size, color,…)
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Marine microlitterCDIs
For litter management
Pre-filled example of CDI
Details
What?
Data set name
Discipline
Parameter groups
Discovery parameters
GEMET-INSPIRE themes
Abstract
Data format
Data set creation date
Where?
Latitude 1
Longitude 1
Latitude 2
Longitude 2
Datum
Measuring area type
Sea regions
Example
vocab terms
Bottle and Low Resolution CTD Data
Administration and dimensions
Chemical oceanography
Physical oceanography
Administration and dimensions
Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus
Carbonate system
Dissolved gases
Nutrients
Water column temperature and salinity
Alkalinity, acidity and pH of the water column
Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
Salinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Vertical spatial coordinates
Oceanographic geographical features
Bottle and Low Resolution CTD Data
Ocean Data View ASCII input Version 0.4
P08
DS10 Environment
P03
H001 Pollution
P02
LITT Litter abundance and type
20140312
58,53333
0,25
World Geodetic System 84
point
North Sea
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start point coordinates
start point coordinates
end point coordinates
end point coordinates
C16
point/curve (if more than 1 point)
SeaDataNet sea areas
Marine microlitterCDIs
Details
Example
When?
Start date
Start time
End date
End time
How?
Instrument / gear type
vocab terms
19500802
00:00:00
19500802
00:00:00
CTD
discrete water samplers
unknown
Platform type
Station name
287
Alternative station name
287
Station start date
19500802
WHO?
Originator
British Oceanographic Data Centre
Data Holding centre
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
HOW TO GET THE
DATA?
Data Distributor
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
Access/ordering of data web data access with registration
Access restriction
SeaDataNet licence
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L05
EDMO
EDMO
EDMO
to add "manta" and "bongo" instrument
Marine microlitterCDIs
Details
Example
Other info
Quality info
CDI-METADATA
CDI-record id
CDI-record creation date
CDI-record last update
CDI-partner
IEO/Spanish Oceanographic Institute
vocab terms
protocols if available
2472712
20170309
20170322
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EDMO
Marine microlitter ODV
Label/column header in datafile
Bot. Depth [m]
Depth [m]
Use
mandatory (ODV
Default)
mandatory (ODV
Default)
mandatory (ODV
Default)
mandatory (ODV
Default)
mandatory (ODV
Default)
mandatory (ODV
Default)
mandatory (ODV
Default)
mandatory (ODV
Default)
mandatory (ODV
Default)
additional
End_Longitude [degrees_east]
additional/optional
End_Latitude [degrees_north]
additional/optional
End_yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.sss
additional/optional
Category
Color
Size
additional
additional/optional
additional/optional
Count
Weight [g]
Distance [Km]
Weather conditions- sea conditions [Dmnless]
Weather conditions- wind conditions [Dmnless]
Net_opening [cm]
Mesh_size [µm]
additional
additional/optional
additional/optional
additional/optional
additional/optional
additional/optional
additional/optional
Cruise
Station
Type
yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.sss
Longitude [degrees_east]
Latitude [degrees_north]
LOCAL_CDI_ID
EDMO_code
comment
Reiner suggestion is to use type "B". From manual: 'B' for bottle profile data. For time
series and trajectories set to 'B' for small (<250) row groups
start date/time.
start point coordinates.
start point coordinates.
depth of the sampling that for marine microlitter could be often 0 m
end point coordinates.
end point coordinates.
end date/time.
field obtained as a combination of type and shape
number of items collected. It's the official mandate from MSFD to provide the count of
collected microplastics
weight of the collected items, not mandatory information in grams
survey distance from the beginning point in km
sea conditions following the Douglas scale
wind conditions following the Beaufort scale
bongo or manta net opening information for the calculation of the covered surface in cm
mesh size for manta or bongo net in µm
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Marine microlitter  terms and
vocabs
Type+Shapes
Category
Plastic
Plastic fragments
Plastic fragments rounded
Plastic fragments
subrounded
Plastic fragments subangular
Plastic fragments angular
Plastic pellets
Plastic pellets cylindrical
Plastic pellets disks
Plastic pellets flat
Plastic pellets ovoid
Plastic pellets spheruloid
Plastic filaments
Plastic films
Plastic foam
Plastic granules
Plastic styrofoam
Other (glass, metal, tar)
New terms to
add to P01
…plus “end date/time”
To be added in p01
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New vocabularies for optional
additional fields:
Marine microlitter
terms and vocabs
Size classes:
Degree
Height
(m)
<300µm
300µm-500µm
500µm-1mm
1-2mm
2-5 mm
5mm- 25mm
(Common used size categories, not only micro…)
Color classes:
From Cefas example, modified according to Tab.9.:
BLACK/GREY
Beaufort
Douglas
0 no wave
Descriptio
n
Calm
(Glassy)
Calm
(rippled)
1 0–0.10
2 0.10–0.50 Smooth
3 0.50–1.25 Slight
4 1.25–2.50 Moderate
5 2.50–4.00 Rough
Very
6 4.00–6.00 rough
7 6.00–9.00 High
Beaufort Descriptio
number
n
0
Calm
1
Light air
Light
2
breeze
Gentle
3
breeze
6
Moderate
breeze
Fresh
breeze
Strong
breeze
7
High wind,
moderate
gale,
near gale
8
Gale,
fresh gale
4
5
9.00–
8 14.00
9 14.00+
Very high
Phenome
nal
BLUE/GREEN
BROWN/TAN
TRANSPARENT/TRANSLUCENT
11
Strong/se
vere gale
Storm,[7]
whole
gale
Violent
storm
12
Hurricane
force [7]
9
WHITE/CREAM
YELLOW
10
ORANGE/PINK/RED
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Marine microlitter ODV
ODV mandatory/default fields
Cruis
e
Station Type
yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.sss
Longitude
[degrees_east]:METAVAR:DOUBLE
Latitude
[degrees_north]:METAVAR:DOUBLE
LOCAL_CDI_ EDMO_co Bot. Depth
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Marine microlitter ODV
ODV litter additional fields
End_Longitude
Depth [m] [degrees_east]
0
0
0
0
0
0
End_Latitude
[degrees_north]
End_yyyy-mmdThh:mm:ss.sss]
Category:INDEXED_T
EXT
plastic
plastic
plastic
plastic
plastic
plastic
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
plastic
plastic
plastic
plastic
Plastic fragments
Plastic fragments
Plastic fragments
Plastic fragments
Plastic fragments
Plastic fragments
0
Plastic fragments
0
0
0
0
0
0
Plastic fragments
Plastic fragments
Plastic fragments
Plastic fragments
Plastic fragments
Plastic fragments
Plastic fragments
rounded
Plastic fragments
subrounded
0
0
Additional mandatory fields
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Color:INDEXED_TEXT
BLACK/GREY
BLACK/GREY
BLUE/GREEN
BLUE/GREEN
BROWN/TAN
BROWN/TAN
TRANSPARENT/TRANSLUC
ENT
WHITE/CREAM
YELLOW
ORANGE/PINK/Red
BLACK/GREY
BLACK/GREY
BLUE/GREEN
BLUE/GREEN
BROWN/TAN
BROWN/TAN
TRANSPARENT/TRANSLUC
ENT
TRANSPARENT/TRANSLUC
ENT
WHITE/CREAM
WHITE/CREAM
YELLOW
YELLOW
Size:INDEXED_TEXT
300µm-500µm
500µm-1mm
300µm-500µm
500µm-1mm
300µm-500µm
500µm-1mm
300µm-500µm
500µm-1mm
300µm-500µm
500µm-1mm
300µm-500µm
500µm-1mm
300µm-500µm
500µm-1mm
300µm-500µm
500µm-1mm
300µm-500µm
500µm-1mm
300µm-500µm
Marine microlitter ODV
ODV litter additional fields
Weather conditions- sea conditions [Douglas
sea scale]
Distance
Weight [g] [Km]
Count
Weather conditions- wind conditions [Beaufort
Mesh_size
wind scale]
Net_opening [cm] [µm]
10
5
5
1
1
30
200
20
10
5
2
2
30
200
0
1
30
200
10
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Additional mandatory fields
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