| Author | Comment | Last activity | Moderation | ||
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| SBucic | "Please note to users to not leave this device unattended as there is a potential for catching wildlife. " | Read more » | over 6 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 » | over 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "I do see that one photo on the Babylegs page refers to the Hudson River! " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi @maxliboiron, i was curious about this! Thanks! " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "Zooniverse link! https://www.theplastictide.com/blog-1/2017/4/24/launching-our-tagging-website-2-days-to-go " | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "And just to link to what @amirberAgain mentioned about automatic particle detection in #silica #dust pollution: https://publiclab.org/notes/amirbe..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| amirberAgain | "Another ask /suggestion : place particles on a polarized film sheet illuminated from below, image with a cross polarizer to remove the background. " | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Got some good feedback from @maxliboiron from Newfoundland and http://civiclaboratory.nl -- @maxliboirox: You can't. Not with any accuracy. A few ..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| tech4gt | " More info here " | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| amirberAgain | "Another ask/ suggestion would be to image using black/uv light, most plastics would show strong signs of fluorescence which might help descriminati..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| jlev | "Thanks @amirberAgain. I've contacted my friend at Greenpeace and asked him for some more images with less overlap and a wider array of lighting con..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| amirberAgain | "Code: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HDekiO0l9DEmSBmbWBVOEEPvSkys6AUa/view?usp=sharing " | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| amirberAgain | "I tried to apply the same simplistic approach as was in the particle image. Not sure why, but Sobel didn't work, but Canny did. Other than that - t..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| amirberAgain | "Could you upload a few more image samples? Is it possible to ask that the samples be illuminated from a wide light source such that shade will be k..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "What might be the processing steps, to try to break this down? Could they look like some of the steps @SimonPyle, @AmberWise, @damarquis and @amirb..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Ooh! @maxliboiron maybe you know something about this? I have to dig through some old emails to find someone else who's mentioned this to me too. " | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| kgradow1 | "How big are the particles? I know very little about microplastics but I found this great reference sheet: http://www.ccb.se/documents/Postkod201..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "@maxliboiron would know! https://civiclaboratory.nl/category/technologies/ I wonder what microns per pixel resolution is needed? " | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "If you collect all the water expelled while a laundry machine washes a load of clothes, all of the synthetic material will be in the water. If you ..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi! How small are these? How strong a microscope would be required? I'm curious if some of the stuff in the passive pm project could be relevant? h..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago |