A near-synoptic survey of ocean microplastic concentration along an around-the-world sailing race

• Toste Tanhua ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Toste Tanhua, Sören B. Gutekunst

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ttanhua@geomar.de

  Affiliation GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0313-2557

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• Sören B. Gutekunst ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Toste Tanhua, Sören B. Gutekunst

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, The Ocean Race, Alicante, Spain, SCG Science Consulting–Dr.-Ing, Gutekunst, Koblenz, Germany

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• Arne Biastoch

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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