Field of research: Microplastics

PhD thesis:

„Detection and Analysis of Microplastics in River Sediments“

In my PhD thesis I aim to

1) investigate existing methods to detect microplastics,
2) develop new methods, especially in the field of density separation, and
3) apply these methods to quantify microplastics in river sediments."

Projects

1. Citizen Lab for Microplastic (BMBF)

2. Microplastic in river sediment: Development of a methodic protocol for sampling, filtration and quantification using the example of the river Lahn (Hessen) (UMR2027)

Publications

Paper

Lorenz, C., Roscher, L., Meyer, M. S., Hildebrandt, L., Prume, J., Löder, M. G., . . . Gerdts, G. (2019). Spatial distribution of microplastics in sediments and surface waters of the southern North Sea. Environmental Pollution. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.06.093

 Worm, M., Landgraf, T., Prume, J., Nguyen, H., Kirschbaum, F., & Emde, G. (2018). Evidence for mutual allocation of social attention through interactive signaling in a mormyrid weakly electric fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, 6852-6857.

Poster

Investigating the potential of UV-excited photoluminescence spectroscopy for the identification of plastics
Sebastian Gies, E.-M-Schömann, Y. Radiev, J. Prume, M. Koch
Poster und Konferenzpaper, präsentiert auf der CEST2019-Konferenz, Rhodos (09-2019)

A methodological protocol to extract microplastics from river sediments (bed, bank and floodplain)
Julia Prume, E.-M. Schömann, P. Chifflard, M. Koch
Poster und Konferenzpaper, präsentiert auf der CEST2019-Konferenz, Rhodos (09-2019)

Inter-study comparison of nile red-based staining protocols for the detection of microplastics in environmental samples
Srumika Konde, J. Ornik, J. A. Prume, J. Taiber, M. Koch
Poster präsentiert auf der Microplastics2018-Konferenz, Ascona (2018)