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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b><i>"Whose plastic is that? Combining virtual particle simulations with Bayesian inference to attribute macroplastic sources and sinks"</i></b></span>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>Erik van Sebille</b></span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">NOTE: Please feel free to forward/share this invitation with other groups/disciplines that might be interested in this talk/topic.
<b>All are welcome to attend. </b></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><b>https://fsu.zoom.us/j/94273595552 </b></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">Meeting # <b>942 7359 5552 </b></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><b>Wednesday, Nov 16th</b>, 2022, Schedule: </div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">* 3:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) </div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">Nespresso & Teatime (in 417 DSL Commons) </div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">* <b>3:30 to 4:30 PM</b> Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><b>Colloquium</b> - Attend F2F (in 499 DSL) or Virtually (via Zoom)
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><b>Abstract: </b></div>
<div>The world's ocean currents can potentially transport material like plastic over vast scales, connecting sources on one continent to impacts on another. On the other hand, it had recently become clear that most plastics found at any particular location
are relatively local, often originating from within the same country. Effective policies to reduce the impact of plastic pollution require knowledge of whose plastic ends up where.<br>
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In this seminar, I will present some recent work on using a Bayesian framework to analyze the sources of plastics found on beaches around the world. The input to this analysis comes from Lagrangian ocean analysis simulations with the OceanParcels.org tool,
which I will also showcase. I will particularly highlight results from the Indian Ocean, the Galapagos, the South Atlantic and the North Sea.<br>
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