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![BGS staff sampling a chalk spring for microplastics in 2024. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/P1038363.webp)
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BGS to lead a new research project on microplastic occurrence in springs
BGS has been awarded a two-year research project to undertake the first assessment of microplastic occurrence in springs in the UK.
![PhD student Megan Trusler (University of Nottingham) looking pleased to have recovered the first sediment core of the fieldtrip. Photo by Chris Vane. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_0619-1-1.jpg)
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Sampling salt marsh sediments: a Thames microplastics fieldtrip
Megan Trusler gives an overview of her PhD project, which studies the role salt marshes play in the accumulation and transport of microplastics.
![Megan-Trusler_micro-plastics-Blog-1_photo_web](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Megan-Trusler_micro-plastics-Blog-1_photo_web.jpg)
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Stuck in the mud: the long-term accumulation and dispersal of microplastics across urban catchments
Investigating how salt marshes store and interact with plastics and explaining the key processes that control their accumulation and release.