title: Relations between marine plastic litter and river plumes: First results of PLUMPLAS project
abstract: We report here first and preliminary results of the PLUMPLAS Project – an ongoing international joint research effort between Federal University of Rio Grande (Brazil), Xiamen University (China), and P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (Russia) developed within science and technology cooperation initiative (STI) between BRICS countries. The studies are focused on specific model regions representing different conditions of river discharges and anthropogenic loads, namely, the areas adjacent to 
journal: Journal of Oceanological Research