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| maxliboiron | "Hi Stevie, We usually deploy for half an hour. Anything less than that and its not much of a representative sample. That's in relatively steady flo..." | Read more » | almost 4 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | "Here are two videos with live builds FYI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLVQYbdeC1Q https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=547320069347987 " | Read more » | almost 4 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | "Hello! As one of those potential experts, I'd say that we would not get an accurate read on just photos. When we do counts for third parties it is ..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | "I know of studies that show the long-term toxicity of cigarette butts, specifically on snails. But I don't know of any research on remediation. If ..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | "I tend to use bright pink/orange rope because we find a lot of rope fragments in our samples here in fishing-land, most of which is white, green, b..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | "Yes!! This will work for plastic forensics! Especially as the light comes from above rather than below (most plastics are opaque). The resolution a..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | " @warren : The fluorescing plastics you mention are from specially designed lab plastics that floresce, so not related to polymer type or to everyd..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | " Yes-- this is the same process. The issue with washing machines, as Eucastic above points out, is that there is a force to the water that a simple..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | " We tend to reuse bottles rather than source virgin ones, since there are so many in the waste/recycling stream. For kits, I would have people find..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | "Hi Jeff, Yes! You can rig up a hacked BabyLegs to work at the start or end of pipes, from spitting to sinks to dryer vents to sewage outfalls. Real..." | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | "Looks about right to me. " | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | "In a perfect world, you wouldn't be looking through plexi at your marine plastic because plexi has characteristics of plastic (scratches, reflectio..." | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | "Yes-- the issue is the lighting, not the magnification. Most plastics are opaque, and the closer you zoom in, the harder it is to identify plastics..." | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | "It's actually been tested for that-- it will certainly catch bugs, but anything larger has been able to successfully avoid it (ducks, fish, eels), ..." | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | "Yes, rivers are ideal places to study microplastics for a couple of reasons. First, you can gain baseline data about the state of the body of water..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| maxliboiron | "Thanks Warren! " | Read more » | about 10 years ago |