Global plastic litter pollution is one of the current concerns in different environment. Usually it is assumed that once plastics enter the ocean they are there to stay, retained permanently within the ocean currents, biota or sediment until eventual deposition on the sea floor or become washed up onto the beach. In this PhD project we would understand how sea salt, bacteria, virus’ and algae could be a plastic particles curriers allowing exchange of microplastic between ocean and atmosphere.

The requested skills of a successful candidate are: 1) good knowledge of physics and mathematics, 2) good ability to analyse data, 3) knowledge of Matlab, or Pyton or R.

Our team includes two professors, 4 researchers and 2 post-doc with experience in monitoring of the atmospheric and ocean pollution. See this webpage for more details: www.atmo.unich.it