Thomas Maes

Setting the course: aligning European Union marine pollution policy ambitions with environmental realities

2025 Frontiers in Marine Science 4 citations

Catch me if you can: Microplastics hidden in plain sight

2025 Environmental Science & Policy 1 citations

Quantitative evaluation of global microbead policies: a PMC index approach towards microplastic pollution

2025 Policy Sciences 0 citations

1292.3 Plastic never dies: finding a governance solution to the ubiquitous nature of microplastic pollution

2025 0 citations

Lessons Learned from Developing a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to Support Citizen Scientists in Africa

2025 Southern African journal of environmental education 0 citations

Clean, but not green: Emission assessment, forecast modelling and policy solutions for plastic microbeads from personal care products in India

2024 Emerging contaminants 21 citations

Plastic and oceans

2024 Elsevier eBooks 2 citations

A marine plastic cloud - Global mass balance assessment of oceanic plastic pollution

2023 Continental Shelf Research 72 citations

Leaving a plastic legacy: Current and future scenarios for mismanaged plastic waste in rivers

2023 The Science of The Total Environment 56 citations

A spatial and temporal assessment of microplastics in seafloor sediments: A case study for the UK

2023 Frontiers in Marine Science 31 citations

Author comment: A little less conversation: How existing governance can strengthen the future global plastics treaty — R1/PR6

2023 0 citations

E-waste it wisely: lessons from Africa

2022 SN Applied Sciences 81 citations

Current State of Microplastic Pollution Research Data: Trends in Availability and Sources of Open Data

2022 Frontiers in Environmental Science 70 citations

A large-scale study of microplastic abundance in sediment cores from the UK continental shelf and slope

2022 Marine Pollution Bulletin 51 citations

Microplastic pollution in the surface waters of Vava'u, Tonga

2022 Marine Pollution Bulletin 27 citations

Microplastic pollution in the intertidal and subtidal sediments of Vava'u, Tonga

2022 Marine Pollution Bulletin 22 citations

A baseline study of macro, meso and micro litter in the Belize River basin, from catchment to coast

2022 ICES Journal of Marine Science 21 citations

Marine Litter, Plastic, and Microplastics on the Seafloor

2022 16 citations

The Way Forward, Building Up from On-The-Ground Innovation

2022 15 citations

Microplastics Pollution and Regulation

2022 10 citations

A Blue Future: developing a national marine litter action plan in SIDS—lessons learnt in Belize

2022 ICES Journal of Marine Science 10 citations

Meso- and microplastics monitoring in harbour environments: A case study for the Port of Durban, South Africa

2021 Marine Pollution Bulletin 90 citations

Microplastic pollution in Marine Protected Areas of Southern Sri Lanka

2021 Marine Pollution Bulletin 88 citations

Taking a mass-balance approach to assess marine plastics in the South China Sea

2021 Marine Pollution Bulletin 48 citations

LIFTING THE VEIL ON MARINE LITTER - Towards a better understanding of Marine Litter in the North Atlantic: Method Development, Occurrence and Impacts

2021 Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) 0 citations

Occurrence and abundance of meso and microplastics in sediment, surface waters, and marine biota from the South Pacific region

2020 Marine Pollution Bulletin 128 citations

Microplastics in Commercially Important Small Pelagic Fish Species From South Africa

2020 Frontiers in Marine Science 66 citations

You Are What You Eat, Microplastics in Porbeagle Sharks From the North East Atlantic: Method Development and Analysis in Spiral Valve Content and Tissue

2020 Frontiers in Marine Science 52 citations

Microplastics Pollution and Regulation

2020 15 citations

The world is your oyster: low-dose, long-term microplastic exposure of juvenile oysters

2019 Heliyon 88 citations

A rapid-screening approach to detect and quantify microplastics based on fluorescent tagging with Nile Red

2017 Scientific Reports 897 citations

Microplastics Baseline Surveys at the Water Surface and in Sediments of the North-East Atlantic

2017 Frontiers in Marine Science 308 citations

A Review of the Tools Used for Marine Monitoring in the UK: Combining Historic and Contemporary Methods with Modeling and Socioeconomics to Fulfill Legislative Needs and Scientific Ambitions

2017 Frontiers in Marine Science 91 citations

Microplastics in Seawater: Recommendations from the Marine Strategy Framework Directive Implementation Process

2016 Frontiers in Marine Science 173 citations

Microplastic contamination in brown shrimp (Crangon crangon, Linnaeus 1758) from coastal waters of the Southern North Sea and Channel area

2015 Marine Pollution Bulletin 725 citations

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