Shelly L. Moore

Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research

Microplastics are a diverse suite of contaminants requiring a variety of data types to capture particle characteristics and study methodologies. Data sharing is critical to advance science and policy. The One4All portal was created to harmonize and share structured and unstructured microplastic data (and beyond) through validation. Validated data c...

Despite global efforts to monitor, mitigate against, and prevent trash (mismanaged solid waste) pollution, no harmonized trash typology system has been widely adopted worldwide. This impedes the merging of datasets and comparative analyses. We addressed this problem by 1) assessing the state of trash typology and comparability, 2) developing a stan...

As the amount of plastic in the environment has expanded, so has the number of legislative solutions intended to reduce that spread. This trend has been very apparent in the State of California, which has enacted several policies to reduce inputs to the environment, including a statewide ban on carry-out plastic bags at grocery stores, a law requir...

The ubiquitous pollution of the environment with microplastics, a diverse suite of contaminants, is of growing concern for science and currently receives considerable public, political, and academic attention. The potential impact of microplastics in the environment has prompted a great deal of research in recent years. Many diverse methods have be...

The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Diego Region considers San Diego Bay one of the most important and valuable resources in the Southern California region. The bay provides multiple beneficial uses for both human use and natural services including habitat for fish and wildlife, extensive commercial and industrial economic bene...

The use and interpretation of fish consumption surveys and interviews, the application of fish consumption rates for sediment evaluation and cleanup, and the development of human health water quality criteria (HH WQC) are complex and interrelated issues. The present article focuses on these issues using examples from the United States, although the...

Transcriptomic analysis can complement traditional ecotoxicology data by providing mechanistic insight, and by identifying sub-lethal organismal responses and contaminant classes underlying observed toxicity. Before transcriptomic information can be used in monitoring and risk assessment, it is necessary to determine its reproducibility and detect...

Previous studies of neustonic debris have been limited to surface sampling. Here we conducted two trawl surveys, one before and one shortly after a rain event, in which debris and zooplankton density were measured at three depths in Santa Monica Bay, California. Surface samples were collected with a manta trawl, mid-depth samples with a bongo net a...

The density of neustonic plastic particles was compared to that of zooplankton in the coastal ocean near Long Beach, California. Two trawl surveys were conducted, one after an extended dry period when there was little land-based runoff, the second shortly after a storm when runoff was extensive. On each survey, neuston samples were collected at fiv...

Most assessments of fish contamination in Southern California use ecologically different species from different sites. Use of ecologically similar species (a guild) might provide better assessments of fish contamination across different sites and depths. In July-August 1997, we collected samples of four sanddab guild species at 22 sites where speci...

The potential for ingestion of plastic particles by open ocean filter feeders was assessed by measuring the relative abundance and mass of neustonic plastic and zooplankton in surface waters under the central atmospheric high-pressure cells of the North Pacific Ocean. Neuston samples were collected at 11 random sites, using a manta trawl lined with...

Many studies have quantified debris collected on beaches around the world. Only a few of those studies have been conducted in the United States, and they are largely limited to semi-quantitative efforts performed as part of volunteer clean-up activities. This study quantifies the distribution and composition of beach debris by sampling 43 stratifie...

Various studies have been conducted to quantify debris found along beaches; however, little information has been compiled about debris found on the seafloor. This study describes the distribution, types, and amounts of marine debris found in the Southern California Bight (SCB) in July and August of 1994. Anthropogenic debris was most common in the...

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ABSTRACT

A lthough the demersal fish fauna of the southern California shelf has been studied for many years, site assemblages have been described only in small areas and hence reflect local conditions. Because assemblages have not been described for the region as a whole, factors influencing assemblage organization throughout the area are not known. Here we...

The density of neustonic plastic particles was compared to that of zooplankton in the coastal ocean near Long Beach, California. Two trawl surveys were conducted, one after an extended dry period when there was little land-based runoff, and the second shortly after a storm when runoff was exten- sive. On each survey, neuston samples were col- lecte...

Photocopy of typescript. Thesis (M.S.)--California State University, Long Beach, 1998. Abstract preceding title page. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-87).