HOW TO GENERATE REPRODUCIBLE RIVERINE PLASTIC POLLUTION RESEARCH (Invited Presentation)

Riverine plastic pollution samples are often very limited for a study due to the enormous amount of time and resources that must go into collecting a single sample. New methodologies are being proposed every year to increase throughput and decrease costs, but no widely used methodology has fully overcome this problem. Grappling with copious details about measurements, reporting, subsampling, and uncertainty estimation is critical to ensuring the reproducibility of riverine plastic pollution studies and advancing the science. This talk will discuss strategies for generating reproducible riverine plastic pollution research and discuss future avenues to improving throughput.