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Andrew Turner is affiliated with Plymouth University in the United Kingdom and specializes in environmental science. Their research output spans a broad range of topics, with a particular focus on microplastics and plastic pollution.

Their work has been published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Chemosphere

Turner's main fields of study center primarily on environmental science, with significant contributions to subfields such as:

  • Pollution
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Biomaterials

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
  • Biodegradable Polymer Synthesis and Properties
  • Heavy Metals in Environment
  • Effects and Risks of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity

Among recent published papers, notable titles are:

  • "Hazardous metal additives in plastics and their environmental impacts" (2021, Environment International)
  • "Paint particles in the marine environment: An overlooked component of microplastics" (2021, Water Research X)
  • "Foamed Polystyrene in the Marine Environment: Sources, Additives, Transport, Behavior, and Impacts" (2020, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • "Metals and marine microplastics: Adsorption from the environment versus addition during manufacture, exemplified with lead" (2020, Water Research)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Turner include:

  • Montserrat Filella
  • Sajjad Abbasi
  • Awadhesh N. Jha
  • María Florencia Ferreira
  • C. Grisolia

Best Publications

  • Adsorption of trace metals to plastic resin pellets in the marine environment

    Luke A. Holmes;Andrew Turner;Richard C. Thompson

  • Association of metals with plastic production pellets in the marine environment.

    Karen Ashton;Luke Holmes;Andrew Turner

  • Interactions between trace metals and plastic production pellets under estuarine conditions

    Luke A. Holmes;Andrew Turner;Richard C. Thompson

  • Distribution and potential health impacts of microplastics and microrubbers in air and street dusts from Asaluyeh County, Iran

    Sajjad Abbasi;Behnam Keshavarzi;Farid Moore;Andrew Turner

  • Microplastics in different tissues of fish and prawn from the Musa Estuary, Persian Gulf

    Sajjad Abbasi;Naghmeh Soltani;Behnam Keshavarzi;Farid Moore

  • Adsorption of trace metals by microplastic pellets in fresh water

    Andrew Turner;Luke A. Holmes

  • Marine pollution from antifouling paint particles.

    Andrew Turner

  • Suspended Particles: Their Role in Estuarine Biogeochemical Cycles

    A Turner;G.E Millward

  • Cadmium, lead and bromine in beached microplastics.

    Angelo Massos;Andrew Turner

  • Hazardous metal additives in plastics and their environmental impacts.

    Andrew Turner;Montserrat Filella

  • Occurrence, distribution and characteristics of beached plastic production pellets on the island of Malta (central Mediterranean)

    Andrew Turner;Luke Holmes

  • The bet method of analysis of gas adsorption data and its relevance to the calculation of surface areas

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  • Human exposure to microplastics: A study in Iran.

    Sajjad Abbasi;Andrew Turner

  • Trace-metal partitioning in estuaries: importance of salinity and particle concentration

    A. Turner

  • Black plastics: Linear and circular economies, hazardous additives and marine pollution.

    Andrew Turner

  • Paint particles in the marine environment: An overlooked component of microplastics.

    Andrew Turner

  • The influence of salting out on the sorption of neutral organic compounds in estuaries.

    Andrew Turner;M.Carl Rawling

  • Trace metals in antifouling paint particles and their heterogeneous contamination of coastal sediments

    Nimisha Singh;Andrew Turner

  • Elemental concentrations and metal bioaccessibility in UK household dust

    Andrew Turner;Lindsey Simmonds

  • Cadmium pigments in consumer products and their health risks

    Andrew Turner

  • Heavy metals, metalloids and other hazardous elements in marine plastic litter

    Andrew Turner

  • Impact of low doses of tritium on the marine mussel, Mytilus edulis: Genotoxic effects and tissue-specific bioconcentration

    Awadhesh N. Jha;Yuktee Dogra;Andrew Turner;Geoffrey E. Millward

  • Bioaccessibility of metals in dust from the indoor environment: application of a physiologically based extraction test.

    Andrew Turner;Ka-Hei Ip

  • Significance of oxides and particulate organic matter in controlling trace metal partitioning in a contaminated estuary

    Andrew Turner;Geoffrey E. Millward;Sophie M. Le Roux

Frequent Co-Authors

G.E. Millward
G.E. Millward Plymouth University
Montserrat Filella
Montserrat Filella University of Geneva
Awadhesh N. Jha
Awadhesh N. Jha Plymouth University
Richard C. Thompson
Richard C. Thompson Plymouth University
Jörg Schäfer
Jörg Schäfer University of Bordeaux
Richard D. Handy
Richard D. Handy Plymouth University
Sean Comber
Sean Comber Plymouth State University
Roger Alexander Falconer
Roger Alexander Falconer Cardiff University
Behnam Keshavarzi
Behnam Keshavarzi Shiraz University
Susan I. Gerber
Susan I. Gerber Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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