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Marine Pollution Bulletin and Elsevier Science instituted an annual prize for “best paper” several years ago, the first being awarded in 2008.
The third in this sequence of prizes has been awarded to Skye Morét-Ferguson (corresponding author), Kara Lavender Law, Giora Proskurowski, Ellen K. Murphy, Emily E. Peacock and Christopher M. Reddy for their paper entitled “The size, mass, and composition of plastic debris in the western North Atlantic Ocean” (Marine Pollution Bulletin 60 (2010) 1873-1878). The authors are from the Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA and the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution…
