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Torkel Gissel Nielsen is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a particular concentration on pollution and related subfields. The scientist's work covers areas including pollution, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, oceanography, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and biomaterials.

The main topics addressed in their research include microplastics and plastic pollution, recycling and waste management techniques, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, marine biology and environmental chemistry, marine and fisheries research, effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Recent publications by Torkel Gissel Nielsen include the following:

  • Quantification of plankton-sized microplastics in a productive coastal Arctic marine ecosystem (2020) in Environmental Pollution
  • A nationwide assessment of plastic pollution in the Danish realm using citizen science (2020) in Scientific Reports
  • Unpalatable Plastic: Efficient Taste Discrimination of Microplastics in Planktonic Copepods (2022) in Environmental Science & Technology
  • Ingestion and impact of microplastics on arctic Calanus copepods (2020) in Aquatic Toxicology
  • Toxicity of tyre wear particle leachates to marine phytoplankton (2022) in Aquatic Toxicology

Torkel Gissel Nielsen has frequently published in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Aquatic Toxicology
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin

Frequent collaborators include Rodrigo Almeda, Sinja Rist, Jes Vollertsen, Alvise Vianello, and Rocío Rodríguez-Torres.

Best Publications

  • A critical assessment of visual identification of marine microplastic using Raman spectroscopy for analysis improvement.

    Robin Lenz;Kristina Enders;Colin A. Stedmon;David M.A. Mackenzie

  • Abundance, size and polymer composition of marine microplastics ≥10μm in the Atlantic Ocean and their modelled vertical distribution.

    Kristina Enders;Robin Lenz;Colin A. Stedmon;Torkel Gissel Nielsen

  • Microplastic exposure studies should be environmentally realistic

    Robin Lenz;Kristina Enders;Torkel Gissel Nielsen

  • Regulation of zooplankton biomass and production in a temperate, coastal ecosystem. 2. Ciliates

    Torkel Gissel Nielsen;Thomas Kicrboe

  • Microplastics: Occurrence, effects and sources of releases to the environment in Denmark

    Carsten Lassen;Steffen Foss Hansen;Kerstin Magnusson;Nanna B. Hartmann

  • Seasonal variation in nutrients, pelagic primary production and grazing in a high-Arctic coastal marine ecosystem, Young Sound, Northeast Greenland

    Søren Rysgaard;Torkel Gissel Nielsen;Benni Winding Hansen

  • On the trophic coupling between protists and copepods in arctic marine ecosystems

    Henrik Levinsen;Jefferson T. Turner;Torkel G. Nielsen;Benni W. Hansen

  • Effects of a Chrysochromulina polylepis subsurface bloom on the planktonic community

    Torkel Gissel Nielsen;Thomas Kiørboe;Peter Koefoed Bjørnsen

  • The North Atlantic Ocean as habitat for Calanus finmarchicus: Environmental factors and life history traits

    Webjørn Melle;Jeffrey A. Runge;Erica Head;Stéphane Plourde

  • No increase in marine microplastic concentration over the last three decades – A case study from the Baltic Sea

    Sabrina Beer;Sabrina Beer;Anders Garm;Bastian Huwer;Jan Dierking

  • Bridging the gap between marine biogeochemical and fisheries sciences; configuring the zooplankton link

    Aditee Mitra;Claudia Castellani;Wendy C. Gentleman;Sigrún H. Jónasdóttir

  • Production of DOC by Calanus finmarchicus, C-glacialis and C-hyperboreus through sloppy feeding and leakage from fecal pellets

    Eva Friis Møller;Peter Thor;Torkel Gissel Nielsen

  • The trophic role of marine pelagic ciliates and heterotrophic dinoflagellates in arctic and temperate coastal ecosystems: A cross-latitude comparison

    Henrik Levinsen;Torkel Gissel Nielsen

  • Annual population development and production by Calanus finmarchicus, C. glacialis and C. hyperboreus in Disko Bay, western Greenland

    S. D. Madsen;T. G. Nielsen;B. W. Hansen

  • Plankton community structure and carbon cycling on the western coast of Greenland during and after the sedimentation of a Diatom Bloom

    T.G. Nielsen;Benni Winding Hansen

  • Role of cyclopoid copepods Oithona spp. in North Sea plankton communities

    Nielsen Tg;Sabatini M

  • Decimeter scale heterogeneity in the plankton during a pycnocline bloom of Gyrodinium aureolum

    PK Bjornsen;TG Nielsen

  • Structure of plankton communities in the Dogger Bank area (North Sea) during a stratified situation

    Torkel Gissel Nielsen;Bo Løkkegaard;Katherine Richardson;Flemming Bo Pedersen

  • Plankton Community Structure and Carbon Cycling on the Western Coast of Greenland during the Stratified Summer Situation: III. Mesozooplankton

    Benni Winding Hansen;Torkel Gissel Nielsen;Henrik Levinsen

  • Significance of sedimentation and grazing by ice micro- and meiofauna for carbon cycling in annual sea ice (northern Baffin Bay)

    Christine Michel;Torkel Gissel Nielsen;Christian Nozais;Michel Gosselin

Frequent Co-Authors

Benni Winding Hansen
Benni Winding Hansen Roskilde University
Nina Lundholm
Nina Lundholm University of Copenhagen
Sigrun Jonasdottir
Sigrun Jonasdottir Technical University of Denmark
Peter Tiselius
Peter Tiselius University of Gothenburg
Katherine Richardson
Katherine Richardson University of Copenhagen
Henrik Skov
Henrik Skov Aarhus University
Lasse Riemann
Lasse Riemann University of Copenhagen
Kam W. Tang
Kam W. Tang Swansea University
Bo Riemann
Bo Riemann Aarhus University
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam

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