Quantifying and characterizing microplastics in farmed soils and stream environments
Jill Crossman, University of Windsor; Martyn Futter, Swedish University of Agricultural Science; Marco Vighi, IMDEA Water; Mirco Bundschuh, University of Koblenz-Landau; Luca Nizzetto, Norwegian Institute for Water Research

Distribution of Microplastics in Benthic Sediment of the Thames River, Ontario
Patricia Corcoran, University of Western Ontario; Sara Belontz, Western University ; Paul Helm, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change; Kelly Ryan, University of Western Ontario

How land-use and hydrology characteristics effect microplastic contamination in Lake Ontario
Jelena Grbic, University of Toronto; Paul Helm, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change; Chelsea Rochman, University of Toronto

Investigating the effects of particle shape and biofilm growth on microplastics settling velocity
Patricia Semcesen, University of Toronto; Roberta Fulthorpe, University of Toronto Scarborough; Mathew Wells, University of Toronto Scarborough

Investigating the Effects of a Range of Microplastics to Fathead Minnows
Kennedy Bucci, University of Toronto; David Poirier, Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change; Paul Helm, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change; Chelsea Rochman, University of Toronto

Digging into litter data � From Shoreline Cleanups to Solutions
Susan Debreceni, Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup; Sarah Winterton, WWF-Canada

Diversity, abundance and distribution of microplastics in the St. Lawrence River
Alex Crew, McGill University / Group for Interuniversity Research in Limnology and Aquatic Environment (GRIL); Irene Gregory-Eaves, McGill University; Anthony Ricciardi, McGill University

Contextualizing count data using computational transport modeling
Rebecca Knauff, Rochester Inst. of Tech.; Matthew Hoffman, Rochester Inst. of Technology, School of Mathematical Sci.

Examining the relative contribution of PCBs assimilated from microplastic beads and food in goldfish
Stefan Grigorakis, University of Windsor, Great Lakes Institute; Ken Drouillard, University of Windsor, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research

Microfibers in the Great Lakes: a prominent contaminant in fish
Lisa Erdle, University of Toronto; Miriam Diamond, Dept. of Geography, University of Toronto; Paul Helm, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change; David Poirier, Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change; Amila De Silva, Environment and Climate Change Canada; Liisa Jantunen, Environment and Climate Change Canada; Daryl McGoldrick, Environment and Climate Change Canada; Michael Arts, Ryerson University

Analyzing plastics using thermal desorption/pyrolysis-direct analysis in real time mass spectrometry
Xianming Zhang, Brock University / Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Changes; Alicia Mell, Ontario MOECC; Ian Brindle, Brock University ; Paul Helm, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change; Karl Jobst, ON Ministry of the Environment; Eric Reiner, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change

Microplastics in Fish: A comparison of Microplastic Ingestion in Two Great Lakes
Keenan Munno, University of Toronto; Paul Helm, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change; Don Jackson, University of Toronto; Chelsea Rochman, University of Toronto; Satyendra Bhavsar, Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change; Steve Petro, MOECC