Marine nanoparticles

Human-made nanoparticles are either engineered, purposely designed and used e.g. in paint and food additives, or incidental, undesired byproducts from combustion, mechanical wear or mineral processing. Marine nanoparticles aims to better understand the impact of nanoparticles on the marine environment.

The first project goal was establishing a screening method for determining nanoparticles in the marine environment using single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (SP-ICP-MS). Currently, I am applying these in order to better understand the distribution and accumulation of NPs in the marine environment. Incidental nanoparticles from the fine-particulate fraction of mining waste deposited into the ocean through submarine tailings deposition is one subtopic of interest.

Recent communications

• [20/10/2023] - Varying Temporal Trends in the Levels of Six Groups of Legacy Persistent Organic Pollutants (Pops) in Liver of Three Gadoid Species from the North Sea, Preprint, submitted to Chemosphere
• [24/5/2023] - The smallest particles in the ocean and how to find them, @ Pint of Science 2023, Bergen
• [11/4/2023] - Vertical distribution of inorganic nanoparticles in a Norwegian fjord, Marine Environmental Research, 105975
• [13/6/2022] - Distribution of inorganic NPs presentation @ Nordic Plasma 2022, Loen
• [20/4/2022] - Seminar project presentation @ Department of Chemistry, UiB
• [4/1/2022] - Invited Pecha Kucha @ Institute of Marine Research days
• [14/10/2021] - Algorithm for automated detection and estimation of nanoparticles Patent project report