Urban Atmospheric Microplastic Pollution - from creation to inhalation of MP in our living spaces

微塑料污染是我们目前面临的最紧迫的环境挑战之一。尽管人们越来越意识到微塑料可能在许多环境中普遍存在，但我们对它们的来源、运输行为和影响的了解仍然有限。这提供了许多迫切需要回答的问题，这是你在这个令人兴奋和快速发展的领域留下自己印记的机会。该项目旨在确定我们城市环境中微塑料污染的来源、运输和潜在的人体吸入。该项目以英国为重点，利用格拉斯哥和苏格兰西南海岸和腹地作为调查区域，有可能调查欧洲的比较城市。通过被动沉积和主动抽吸采样空气从一系列环境（密集的工业区，住宅空间，城市中心），大气微塑料（MP）的流行情况将被详细检查。这将提供第一个定量的大气MP来源研究之一，旨在确定产生二次大气MP污染的工业活动的类型，并将使用HYSPLIT或FLEXPART等大气颗粒建模工具，提供大气MP可以运输到（影响区域）的距离和位置的证据大气运输分析。

Microplastics pollution is one of the most pressing environmental challenges that we are currently facing. Despite an increasing awareness that microplastics are likely pervasive in many environments, we still have limited understanding of their sources, transport behaviour and impact. This provides many questions that desperately need answering and this is your opportunity to make your mark in this exciting and rapidly evolving field. This project aims to identify the sources, transport and potential human inhalation of microplastic pollution in our urban environment. The project is UK focused, using Glasgow and the Scottish south west coast and hinterland as the area of investigation with the potential to investigate comparative cities in Europe. Through passive deposition and active pumped sampling air from across a range of environments (intensive industrial areas, residential spaces, city centres), the atmospheric microplastic (MP) prevalence will be examined in detail. This will provide one of the first quantitative atmospheric MP source studies aimed at identifying the types of industrial activities creating secondary atmospheric MP pollution and will provide evidenced atmospheric transport analysis of how far and where this atmospheric MP can be transported to (area of impact), using atmospheric particle modelling tools such as HYSPLIT or FLEXPART.