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Melanie Bergmann is a researcher affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science, with an emphasis on pollution.

The main fields of study represented in their research include:

  • Environmental Science

The subfields they have contributed to most frequently are:

  • Pollution
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Oceanography
  • Ecology

Their research covers topics including:

  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
  • Water Quality Monitoring Technologies

Melanie Bergmann has published works in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Arctic Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Bergmann include:

  • The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris (2020), Environmental Research Letters
  • Plastic pollution in the Arctic (2022), Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment (2022), Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Tying up Loose Ends of Microplastic Pollution in the Arctic: Distribution from the Sea Surface through the Water Column to Deep-Sea Sediments at the HAUSGARTEN Observatory (2020), Environmental Science & Technology
  • A global plastic treaty must cap production (2022), Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bergmann include:

  • Mine Banu Tekman
  • Bethanie Carney Almroth
  • Kristian Syberg
  • François Galgani
  • Lene Buhl-Mortensen

Best Publications

  • Marine Anthropogenic Litter

    Melanie Bergmann;Lars Gutow;Michael Klages

  • White and wonderful? Microplastics prevail in snow from the Alps to the Arctic.

    Melanie Bergmann;Sophia Mützel;Sebastian Primpke;Mine Banu Tekman

  • Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic

    Ilka Peeken;Sebastian Primpke;Birte Beyer;Julia Gütermann

  • High Quantities of Microplastic in Arctic Deep-Sea Sediments from the HAUSGARTEN Observatory.

    Melanie Bergmann;Vanessa Wirzberger;Vanessa Wirzberger;Thomas Krumpen;Claudia Lorenz

  • The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

    Erik van Sebille;Stefano Aliani;Kara Lavender Law;Nikolai Maximenko

  • Marine litter distribution and density in European seas, from the shelves to deep basins.

    Christopher K. Pham;Eva Ramirez-Llodra;Eva Ramirez-Llodra;Claudia H. S. Alt;Teresa Amaro

  • Plastic pollution in the Arctic

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  • Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment

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  • Tying up Loose Ends of Microplastic Pollution in the Arctic: Distribution from the Sea Surface through the Water Column to Deep-Sea Sediments at the HAUSGARTEN Observatory.

    Mine Banu Tekman;Claudia Wekerle;Claudia Lorenz;Sebastian Primpke

  • Increase of litter at the Arctic deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN.

    Melanie Bergmann;Michael Klages

  • Citizen scientists reveal: Marine litter pollutes Arctic beaches and affects wild life.

    Melanie Bergmann;Birgit Lutz;Mine Banu Tekman;Lars Gutow

  • Marine litter: Sea change for plastic pollution

    Melanie Bergmann;Mine B. Tekman;Lars Gutow

  • Marine litter on deep Arctic seafloor continues to increase and spreads to the North at the HAUSGARTEN observatory

    Mine Banu Tekman;Thomas Krumpen;Melanie Bergmann

  • HAUSGARTEN: Multidisciplinary Investigations at a Deep-Sea, Long-Term Observatory in the Arctic Ocean

    Thomas Soltwedel;Eduard Bauerfeind;Melanie Bergmann;Nataliya Budaeva

  • Microplastic ingestion in zooplankton from the Fram Strait in the Arctic.

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  • Natural variability or anthropogenically-induced variation? Insights from 15 years of multidisciplinary observations at the arctic marine LTER site HAUSGARTEN

    Thomas Soltwedel;Eduard Bauerfeind;Melanie Bergmann;Astrid Bracher;Astrid Bracher

  • The quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects

    Miquel Canals;Christopher K Pham;Melanie Bergmann;Lars Gutow

  • Observations of floating anthropogenic litter in the Barents Sea and Fram Strait, Arctic

    Melanie Bergmann;Nadja Sandhop;Ingo Schewe;Diederik D’Hert

  • Plastic ingestion by juvenile polar cod (Boreogadus saida) in the Arctic Ocean.

    Susanne Kühn;Fokje Schaafsma;Bernike van Werven;Hauke Flores

  • Using knowledge from fishers and fisheries scientists to identify possible groundfish 'Essential Fish Habitats'

    M Bergmann;H Hinz;R.E Blyth;M.J Kaiser

  • Diversity of the arctic deep-sea benthos

    Bluhm A. Bodil;William G. Ambrose;Melanie Bergmann;Lisa M. Clough

  • Assessing resilience in long-term ecological data sets

    F. Müller;M. Bergmann;R. Dannowski;J.W. Dippner

  • Trophic relationships along a bathymetric gradient at the deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN

    Melanie Bergmann;Jennifer Dannheim;Eduard Bauerfeind;Michael Klages

  • Increase of litter at the Arctic deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN – indirect effect of global warming?

    Melanie Bergmann;Michael Klages

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Soltwedel
Thomas Soltwedel Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Michael Klages
Michael Klages Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Gunnar Gerdts
Gunnar Gerdts Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Thomas Krumpen
Thomas Krumpen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ilka Peeken
Ilka Peeken Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Eva-Maria Nöthig
Eva-Maria Nöthig Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Tim Wilhelm Nattkemper
Tim Wilhelm Nattkemper Bielefeld University
Michel J. Kaiser
Michel J. Kaiser Heriot-Watt University
Julian Gutt
Julian Gutt Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Antje Boetius
Antje Boetius Max Planck Society

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