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The NOAA NCEI Global Marine Microplastics Harmonized Database during 1972-04-20 to present (NCEI Accession 0306475)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: October 13, 2025 | Last Modified: 2025-08-07T00:00:00.000+00:00
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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0306475 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 oceanography DE/GEOMAR > GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany 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 AKADEMIK TRYOSHNIKOV (call sign: UBXH3, ICES code: RUB3, 2012-) 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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