Rachel Sandquist

Big ole grainy bait ball 🎞️

I'm very excited to share a ✨New Paper✨ out today in @STOTEN_journal ! We investigated how microplastics affect disease progression, using a common farmed fish🐟 This graphical abstract sums it up, or you can read more about our results in this🧵 authors.elsevier.com/a/1gPx0_17GgIV…

Ghastly plastic now lurks among all the beautiful glass of the diatoms in my plankton sample. Microplastic fragments and plastic microfibers. Every inshore sample I now collect contains our plastic litter. @zeiss_micro

fun with some film around the Channel Islands the other day, developing an unequivocal love of kelp

Two job postings in one day?! ⠀ CMDR is also looking for a Research Scientist to lead plastic additive chemistry research. ⠀ ⠀ If interested, apply now! schooljobs.com/careers/hpu/jo…

POV of the corals in Kāneʻohe Bay during @DebrisResearch photogrammetry field days

there is a very fine line between the amount of espresso consumed at the end of the week needed to do research and the ability to handle microplastics without the caffeine shakes

two of my favorite views #35mm

puppy visits should be mandatory every Monday @DebrisResearch

In 2020, MBARI researchers discovered thousands of mysterious holes or pits on the deep seafloor off the coast of Big Sur. A closer look at these mico-depressions revealed a variety of objects like rocks, kelp holdfasts, bones, and lots of trash and fishing gear. ⁠

aloha Friday sunrise over Molokai ◡̈

Check out our co-director Dr. Lynch talk about the Maui polystyrene ban! The event is hosted by Maui Nui Marine Resource Council and is free, but registration is required. Sign up at bit.ly/MauiPlasticWeb….

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." — Loren Eiseley

empty waves are hard to find on Oahu, but not impossible

Malibu Tide Pool Adventure #35mm

some fun lab film @DebrisResearch

@jasminethea_yu Talk by @SandquistRachel on their novel methodology for removing MP from marine sediments. Created an efficient and low-cost density separation device using nontoxic high density sodium polytungstate. Can apply to sediment cores!

Shocking video reveals the presence of plastic microfibers among the copepods that have been eaten by this tiny hydrozoan I found in the autumn plankton off Plymouth, UK this week. @zeiss_micro

Our Standardardized Polymer Kit 1.0 is featured in presentation 08.03.14 at @SETAC_world by Kellie Teague talking about the importance of standard reference materials in #microplastic research @SETAC_plastics

Research technician Raquel Corniuk is presenting on how we document the derelict fishing gear in Hawaii using analytical methods (presentation 08.03.07) @SETAC_plastics @SETAC_world