{"id":173202,"date":"2023-09-30T19:26:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T00:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/researchers-find-high-concentrations-of-microplastics-in-cave-water-and-sediment"},"modified":"2023-09-30T19:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T00:26:53","slug":"researchers-find-high-concentrations-of-microplastics-in-cave-water-and-sediment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/researchers-find-high-concentrations-of-microplastics-in-cave-water-and-sediment","title":{"rendered":"Researchers find high concentrations of microplastics in cave water and sediment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-find-high-concentrations-of-microplastics-in-cave-water-and-sediment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In two recent papers, Saint Louis University researchers report finding high concentrations of microplastics present in a Missouri cave system that had been closed to human visitors for 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Hasenmueller, Ph.D., associate professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and associate director of the WATER Institute at SLU, and her team published findings in the journals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0048969723033132\">Science of the Total Environment<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0043135423006401\">Water Research<\/a>, finding significant <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microplastic\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microplastic<\/a> levels in Cliff Cave in Saint Louis County, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>The research, which originated from Hasenmueller\u2019s research group and Karst Hydrology class, allowed students on the team to participate in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/field+research\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">field research<\/a> and publish their findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two recent papers, Saint Louis University researchers report finding high concentrations of microplastics present in a Missouri cave system that had been closed to human visitors for 30 years. Elizabeth Hasenmueller, Ph.D., associate professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and associate director of the WATER Institute at SLU, and her team published findings in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}