The NOAA NCEI Global Marine Microplastics Harmonized Database during 1972-04-20 to present (NCEI Accession 0306475)
This database contains a harmonized subset of variables from the NOAA NCEI Marine Microplastics collection, which is used to generate the accompanying ArcGIS map. It includes microplastic concentration data (i.e., plastics measuring less than 5 mm; units of pieces/m3 for microplastics in water and beach, pieces/kg d.w. for microplastics in sediment, and pieces/ 10 mins for nurdles) in ocean water, sediments, beach and Nurdle Patrol from across the globe during 1972-04-20 to present. The dataset contains information on date of collection, latitude and longitude where data was collected, sampling instruments used for collection, mesh size, microplastic concentration class range, and links to publications on the data. It is updated on a Federal quarterly schedule.
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| issued | 2025-07-22T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
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"DEPTH - BOTTOM",
"DEPTH - OBSERVATION",
"microplastic concentration",
"POSITION - GEOGRAPHIC",
"water depth",
"Avani trawl net",
"bottle",
"bucket",
"corer",
"CTD",
"dredge",
"Flow-through pump",
"fluorescence microscope",
"Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer",
"GPS",
"Manta net",
"metallic bucket",
"microscope",
"net",
"net - plankton net",
"net - zooplankton net",
"Neuston net",
"Niskin bottle",
"pump sampler",
"sediment sampler - corer",
"sediment sampler - grab",
"sediment sieve",
"trawl",
"in situ",
"laboratory analyses",
"AKADEMIK MSTISLAV KELDYSH",
"AKADEMIK TRYOSHNIKOV (Akademik Treshnikov)",
"Angeles Alvarino",
"Cabo de Hornos",
"Celtic Explorer",
"CELTIC VOYAGER",
"CORWITH CRAMER",
"DISCOVERY",
"LA PELAGIA",
"MALIPPO",
"NEW HORIZON",
"NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer",
"ODEN",
"ORION",
"POINT SUR",
"PROFESSOR KAGANOVSKIY",
"RV Polarstern",
"S. A. AGULHAS",
"Solander",
"SOUTHERN SURVEYOR",
"SSV ROBERT C. SEAMANS",
"Tara",
"URANIA",
"USS Sea Dragon",
"XIANG YANG HONG 03",
"5 Gyres Institute",
"Adventure Scientists",
"Atlantic Technological University",
"Auburn University",
"Bangladesh Agricultural University",
"Beibu Gulf University",
"Bulgarian Academy of Sciences",
"Catholic University of Valencia Saint Vincent Martyr",
"Chulalongkorn University",
"City University of Hong Kong",
"Duke University",
"EAN University",
"Federal University of Pará",
"Fisheries College and Research Institute, Thoothukudi",
"GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel",
"Hellenic Centre for Marine Research",
"Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research",
"Kenya Marine and Fisheries Institute",
"Manipal Institute of Technology",
"Marine Scotland Science",
"Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari",
"Metropolitan Autonomous University",
"National Research Council",
"National School of Marine Science and Coastal Planning",
"National Taiwan University, Department of Geosciences",
"NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science",
"NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information",
"Norwegian Institute for Water Research",
"NOVA University Lisbon",
"Oceaneye Association",
"Polytechnic University of Tapachula",
"Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro",
"Scottish Association for Marine Science",
"Scripps Institution of Oceanography",
"Sea Education Association",
"Sorbonne University",
"State Oceanic Administration, First Institute of Oceanography",
"Sultan Qaboos University",
"The Ocean Cleanup",
"The University of Southern Mississippi",
"The University of Texas at Austin",
"The University of Western Australia",
"Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology",
"University of Alaska Anchorage",
"University of Barcelona",
"University of Copenhagen",
"University of Cuenca",
"University of Ferrara",
"University of Fribourg",
"University of Ghana",
"University of Haifa",
"University of La Laguna",
"University of Newcastle",
"University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography",
"University of Rovira i Virgili",
"University of South Florida",
"University of the Philippines Diliman",
"University of the South Pacific",
"University of the West Indies",
"University of Tokyo",
"University of Toronto",
"UT Austin Marine Science Institute",
"Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution",
"Zhejiang University of Technology",
"NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information",
"Adriatic Sea",
"Aegean Sea",
"Alboran Sea",
"Andaman Sea or Burma Sea",
"Arafura Sea",
"Arctic Ocean",
"Baffin Bay",
"Balearic (Iberian) Sea",
"Bali Sea",
"Baltic Sea",
"Barents Sea",
"Bass Strait",
"Bay of Bengal",
"Bay of Biscay (Golfe de Gascogne)",
"Beaufort Sea",
"Bering Sea",
"Bismarck Sea",
"Black Sea",
"Bristol Channel",
"Caribbean Sea",
"Celebes Sea (Sulawesi Sea and Mindanao Sea)",
"Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary",
"Coastal Waters of Alabama",
"Coastal Waters of Florida",
"Coastal Waters of Louisiana",
"Coastal Waters of Mississippi",
"Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia",
"Coastal Waters of Texas",
"Columbia River estuary - Washington/Oregon",
"Coral Sea",
"Davis Strait",
"East Siberian Sea",
"English Channel (La Manche)",
"Flores Sea",
"Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary",
"Great Australian Bight",
"Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary",
"Greenland Sea (including Iceland Sea and North Greenland Sea)",
"Gulf of Alaska",
"Gulf of Bothnia (Bay of Bothnia and Bothnian Sea)",
"Gulf of California",
"Gulf of Guinea",
"Gulf of Mexico",
"Gulf of Oman",
"Gulf of Riga, Sound Sea",
"Gulf of Suez",
"Gulf of Thailand",
"Halmahera Sea",
"Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary",
"Hudson Strait",
"Indian Ocean",
"Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland",
"Ionian Sea",
"Irish Sea and St. George's Channel",
"Japan Sea",
"Kara Sea",
"Kattegat, The Sound, Storebælt, Lillebælt",
"Labrador Sea",
"Laptev (or Nordenskjöld) Sea",
"Ligurian Sea",
"Malacca Straits",
"Mediterranean Sea",
"Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin",
"Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin",
"Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary",
"Mozambique Channel",
"New York Bight",
"North Atlantic Ocean",
"North Pacific Ocean",
"North Sea",
"Northwestern Passages",
"Norwegian Sea",
"Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary",
"Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument",
"Persian Gulf (Gulf of Iran), Strait of Hormuz",
"Philippine Sea",
"Rio de la Plata",
"Seto Naikai (Inland Sea)",
"Skagerrak",
"Solomon Sea",
"South Atlantic Ocean",
"South China Sea (Nan Hai)",
"South Pacific Ocean",
"Southern Ocean",
"St. Lawrence River",
"Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary",
"Strait of Gibraltar",
"Sulu Sea",
"Tasman Sea",
"Timor Sea",
"Tyrrhenian Sea",
"White Sea",
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"DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
"DOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS > National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
"NO/NIVA > Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Norway",
"TUMST > Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology",
"UH&I-UK/SAMS > Scottish Association for Marine Science, University of Highlands and Islands, UK",
"URI/GSO > Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island",
"WHOI > WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION",
"EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH",
"EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > WATER QUALITY > SEA SURFACE CONTAMINANTS > MICROPLASTIC CONCENTRATION",
"CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth",
"DREDGING DEVICES > DREDGING DEVICES",
"FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY > FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY",
"FTIR SPECTROMETER > Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer",
"GPS RECEIVERS > GPS RECEIVERS",
"GRAB SAMPLERS",
"GRANULOMETRIC SIEVES",
"MICROSCOPES > MICROSCOPES",
"NETS > NETS",
"NEUSTON NET",
"NISKIN BOTTLES",
"PLANKTON NETS",
"SEDIMENT CORERS > SEDIMENT CORERS",
"TRAWL",
"Van Veen grab",
"hand picking",
"SUBMARINE",
"Ships",
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"CELTIC VOYAGER (call sign: EIQN, ICES code: 45CV, 1997-)",
"CORWITH CRAMER (call sign: WTF3319, ICES code: 33CC, 1988-)",
"Cabo de Hornos (call sign: CB7960, ICES code: 20HZ, 2004-)",
"Celtic Explorer (call sign: EIGB, ICES code: 45CE, 2003-)",
"DISCOVERY (ICES code: 32V3)",
"LA PELAGIA (call sign: FTNJ, ICES code: 35LG, 1965-1986)",
"NEW HORIZON (call sign: WKWB, ICES code: 32NM, 1978-2015)",
"ODEN (call sign: SMLQ, ICES code: 77DN)",
"OKEANOS EXPLORER (call sign: WTDH, ICES code: 334A, 2008-)",
"ORION (ICES code: 28OR)",
"POINT SUR (call sign: WSC2276, ICES code: 32P0, 1980-)",
"Polarstern (call sign: DBLK, ICES code: 06AQ, 1982-)",
"Robert C. Seamans (call sign: WDA4486, ICES code: 33GY, 2001-)",
"S. A. AGULHAS (call sign: ZSAF, ICES code: 91AA, 1978-2012)",
"SEA DRAGON (ICES code: 32S2)",
"SOLANDER (call sign: VMQ9273, ICES code: 09CX)",
"SOUTHERN SURVEYOR (call sign: VLHJ, ICES code: 09SS, 1988-2014)",
"Tara (call sign: FVNM, ICES code: 35XI, 2009-)",
"URANIA (ICES code: 48UR)",
"XIANG YANG HONG 03 (call sign: BNVB, ICES code: 76X3)",
"Ángeles Alvariño (call sign: EASE, ICES code: 29AJ, 2012-)",
"Академик Мстислав Келдыш (ICES code: 90BP, 1981-1992)",
"ПРОФЕССОР КАГАНОВСКИЙ (call sign: UTTW, ICES code: 90ZH, 1987-1991)",
"CONTINENT > ASIA > WESTERN ASIA > BLACK SEA",
"CONTINENT > EUROPE > EASTERN EUROPE > BLACK SEA",
"OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN",
"OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BARENTS SEA",
"OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BEAUFORT SEA",
"OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN",
"OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > BALTIC SEA",
"OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA",
"OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > DAVIS STRAIT",
"OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA",
"OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO",
"OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > IRISH SEA",
"OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA",
"OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA > ADRIATIC SEA",
"OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH SEA",
"OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORWEGIAN SEA",
"OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN",
"OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN",
"OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA > PERSIAN GULF",
"OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > BAY OF BENGAL",
"OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN > HAWAIIAN ISLANDS",
"OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN",
"OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA",
"OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > GULF OF ALASKA",
"OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > SEA OF JAPAN",
"OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN",
"OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH CHINA AND EASTERN ARCHIPELAGIC SEAS",
"OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH CHINA SEA",
"OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN",
"Atlantic Ocean",
"Pacific Ocean",
"XC7UF7"
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2025-08-07T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
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| references |
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"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02632-y",
"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/NCEI-Marine-Microplastics"
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| spatial | 179.854333,-71.69904,-179.9942,89.7614 |
| temporal | 1972-04-20T00:00:00+00:00/2023-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | The NOAA NCEI Global Marine Microplastics Harmonized Database during 1972-04-20 to present (NCEI Accession 0306475) |