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Stephen B. Weisberg is affiliated with the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on pollution and oceanography. Weisberg's work spans various subfields including industrial and manufacturing engineering, global and planetary change, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The main topics addressed in their research cover microplastics and plastic pollution, recycling and waste management techniques, ocean acidification effects and responses, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, marine biology and ecology research, fecal contamination and water quality, and pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts.

Notable recent publications by Weisberg include:

  • Risk-based management framework for microplastics in aquatic ecosystems, 2022, Microplastics and Nanoplastics
  • Coastal eutrophication drives acidification, oxygen loss, and ecosystem change in a major oceanic upwelling system, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Monitoring microplastics in drinking water: An interlaboratory study to inform effective methods for quantifying and characterizing microplastics, 2022, Chemosphere
  • Research recommendations to better understand the potential health impacts of microplastics to humans and aquatic ecosystems, 2022, Microplastics and Nanoplastics
  • Quantitative assessment of visual microscopy as a tool for microplastic research: Recommendations for improving methods and reporting, 2022, Chemosphere

Weisberg frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Microplastics and Nanoplastics
  • Chemosphere
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Environmental DNA
  • PLoS ONE

They collaborate with several coauthors, including:

  • Scott Coffin
  • Chelsea M. Rochman
  • John F. Griffith
  • Leah M. Thornton Hampton
  • Albert A. Koelmans

Best Publications

  • A comparison of plastic and plankton in the north Pacific central gyre.

    Charles J. Moore;Shelly L. Moore;Molly K. Leecaster;Stephen B. Weisberg

  • An estuarine benthic index of biotic integrity (B-IBI) for Chesapeake Bay

    Stephen B. Weisberg;J. Ananda Ranasinghe;Daniel M. Dauer;Linda C. Schaffner

  • Water quality indicators and the risk of illness at beaches with nonpoint sources of fecal contamination.

    John M. Colford;Timothy J. Wade;Kenneth C. Schiff;Catherine C. Wright

  • IRON AS A REFERENCE ELEMENT FOR DETERMINING TRACE METAL ENRICHMENT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COASTAL SHELF SEDIMENTS

    K.C Schiff;S.B Weisberg

  • A comparison of neustonic plastic and zooplankton at different depths near the southern California shore.

    G.L. Lattin;C.J. Moore;A.F. Zellers;S.L. Moore

  • Relationships between benthic community condition, water quality, sediment quality, nutrient loads, and land use patterns in Chesapeake Bay

    Daniel M. Dauer;J. Ananda Ranasinghe;Stephen B. Weisberg

  • Comparison of total coliform, fecal coliform, and enterococcus bacterial indicator response for ocean recreational water quality testing.

    R T Noble;D F Moore;M K Leecaster;Charles D McGee

  • A comparison of neustonic plastic and zooplankton abundance in southern California’s coastal waters

    C.J Moore;S.L Moore;S.B Weisberg;G.L Lattin

  • Performance of forty-one microbial source tracking methods: a twenty-seven lab evaluation study.

    Alexandria B. Boehm;Laurie C. Van De Werfhorst;John F. Griffith;Patricia A. Holden

  • Impacts of Coastal Acidification on the Pacific Northwest Shellfish Industry and Adaptation Strategies Implemented in Response

    Alan Barton;George G. Waldbusser;Richard A. Feely;Stephen B. Weisberg

  • Genomics in marine monitoring: new opportunities for assessing marine health status

    Sarah J. Bourlat;Angel Borja;Jack Gilbert;Martin I. Taylor

  • A review of technologies for rapid detection of bacteria in recreational waters.

    Rachel T. Noble;Stephen B. Weisberg

  • Relationship between rainfall and beach bacterial concentrations on Santa Monica bay beaches.

    Drew Ackerman;Stephen B. Weisberg

  • Evaluation of microbial source tracking methods using mixed fecal sources in aqueous test samples.

    John F. Griffith;Stephen B. Weisberg;Charles D. McGee

  • Blooms of Pseudo-nitzschia and domoic acid in the San Pedro Channel and Los Angeles harbor areas of the Southern California Bight, 2003-2004

    Astrid Schnetzer;Peter E. Miller;Rebecca A. Schaffner;Beth A. Stauffer

  • A sea change ahead for recreational water quality criteria

    Alexandria B. Boehm;Nicholas J. Ashbolt;John M. Colford;Lee E. Dunbar

  • New directions in plastic debris.

    Richard Thompson;Charles Moore;Anthony Andrady;Murray Gregory

  • Composition and distribution of beach debris in Orange County, California.

    S.L Moore;D Gregorio;M Carreon;S.B Weisberg

  • Assessing ecological integrity in marine waters, using multiple indices and ecosystem components: challenges for the future.

    A. Borja;A. Ranasinghe;S.B. Weisberg

  • Comparison of rapid quantitative PCR-based and conventional culture-based methods for enumeration of Enterococcus spp. and Escherichia coli in recreational waters.

    Rachel T. Noble;A. Denene Blackwood;John F. Griffith;Charles D. McGee

  • Sources, Fate and Effects of Microplastics in the Marine Environment: Part 2 of a Global Assessment

    N. Bednaršek;T. Klinger;C.J. Harvey;S. Weisberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel T. Noble
Rachel T. Noble University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kenneth Schiff
Kenneth Schiff Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
Alexandria B. Boehm
Alexandria B. Boehm Stanford University
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington
Daniel M. Dauer
Daniel M. Dauer Old Dominion University
Jan Newton
Jan Newton University of Washington
Andrew G. Dickson
Andrew G. Dickson University of California, San Diego
Robert J. Diaz
Robert J. Diaz Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Orin C. Shanks
Orin C. Shanks Environmental Protection Agency
Keith A. Maruya
Keith A. Maruya Southern California Coastal Water Research Project

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