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Manatees:
Visual inspection of microplastics
Microplastic found in the GI tract of the mantees
Copepods:
Sediment Sampling:
The sodium iodide layer was poured into glass vials and centrifuged. After centrifuging, they were poured into beakers and stained.
Filtering apparatus
Sediment that was retrieved from the elutriation column was mixed with Sodium iodide to cause density separation, with microplastics on top
Elutriation column
53 micrometer sieve was placed in the funnel to collect what came out of the column.
Elutriation column
150 g of sediment that was run through the elutriation column
Stained sodium iodide with microplastics
General: