{"id":25397,"date":"2019-07-04T14:24:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T18:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?p=25397"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:17:19","slug":"microplastic-sampling-using-ottawa-riverkeepers-riverwatch-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/2019\/microplastic-sampling-using-ottawa-riverkeepers-riverwatch-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Microplastic Sampling using Ottawa Riverkeeper&#8217;s Riverwatch Network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Microplastic Sampling using Ottawa Riverkeeper&#8217;s Riverwatch Network\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Larissa Holman from Ottawa Riverkeeper and Shaun Forrest from Carleton University discuss the recently released paper &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/epdf\/10.1007\/s10661-019-7297-3?author_access_token=VP9kya28lz7XFmjuekH6wfe4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY77oE-O2OfeszsO80xQep8tJQcxIpQJ5kSSN-CnV9mNA0iE02lzjs1UbKfQ0Jo1xsR4HkiRX8DLsiOHWEJtPJ8OkisDoj95RlQkejNT0kSsHQ%3D%3D\">Citizen science sampling programs as a technique for monitoring microplastic pollution<\/a>&#8221; which details the work that Ottawa Riverkeeper&#8217;s Riverwatch network did helping the lab of Jesse Vermaire at Carleton University collect data on microplastic pollution in the Ottawa River watershed. 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