Meso and Microplastic Risk Assessment in Marine Environments

Dr. Selvam Sekar received a Gold Medal in master degree in Geology from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India in 2009, and Ph.D at the same University (Studies on Environmental Impact Assessment, Human Health and Evaluation of groundwater pollution in and around Tuticorin city, Tamilnadu) in 2013. In 2009, he joined as an Assistant Professor in Geology, V.O. Chidambaram College, Tuticorin. Dr. Selvam’s overall research focus for the past 11 years has been directed toward understanding the environment through water and sediments. He has published around 52 International research paper in SCI/SCIE indexed journal which cover speciation of water and sediments, particularly heavy metals, fluoride, arsenic, GLADIT and DRASTIC model, RS and GIS, ANN model, and FUZZY model. He had 4 research projects completed during 2010-2018 and he is currently working on two projects on Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) funded by DST and MoES, Government of India. Dr. Venkatramanan Senapathi currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the PG and Research Department of Geology at National College, Tiruchirappalli, India. Before assuming this position, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow under the Brain Korea BK21 program at Pukyong National University in South Korea, and as Research Faculty at Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam. His academic contributions encompass over 200 peer-reviewed articles, 2 edited books, 7 special issue volumes, 26 conference proceedings, and 12 book chapters. His Google Scholar H-index is 37. His research interests cover a wide spectrum including Environmental Geochemistry, Hydrogeological Processes, Sediment Dynamics, Remote Sensing and GIS, and Environmental Toxins. Dr. S. Chidambaram is currently working as Research Scientist, Water Research Centre, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait. He was a gold medalist in Undergraduate and Post graduate degrees. He served as professor and head for the department of Earth sciences. He has 19 years of teaching experience andproduced 16 M.Phils and 15 Ph.D thesis under his guidance. He has published more than 180 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 9 books in the field of hydrogeochemistry. He has developed a computer program in C++ (WATCLAST) for hydrogeochemical studies. His work on fluoride removal by natural material in community water supply scheme as an outcome of MoEn&F project has received the best paper award in the Applied Water Sciences journal for the year 2013. He has awarded for the best contribution in the field of Hydrogeology and Environmental Geochemistry during 2016 by Indian Society of Applied Geochemists. He has undertaken training in IAEA programs and served as an expert for two IAEA expert missions to KISR, Kuwait. Dr M.V. Prasanna is an Associate Professor at Curtin University, Malaysia. He completed his Ph.D in 2008 at Annamalai University, India. He was a gold medallist in Post graduate degree. He has qualified State Educational Test (SET) under University Grants Commission (UGC), India for lectureship. He has 15 years of teaching and research experience and produced 2 PhD and 2 M.Phil students under his guidance. He has published 86 Journal papers and 8 book chapters, indexed in Thomson Reuters and Scopus. Recently, he has edited a book on GIS and Geo-statistical Techniques for Groundwater Science and published by Elsevier in June 2019. Currently, he is editing a two special issues on recent environmental geochemical trends in water and sediments – a framework on OSPRC 2020 in Environmental Science and Pollution Research Journal.

Meso and Microplastics: Introduction and current scenario 1. Meso and micro plastics in marine environment: an overview 2. Microplastics pollution a new emerging concern in coast environment 3. Distribution and degradation of Microplastics in marine Environment 4. Impact of microplastics in water and sediments quality

Microplastic processes in Marine Environment 5. Occurrences and sources of Microplastic in marine environment 6. Quantification of Microplastic in marine environment: New Concerns and methods 7. Monitoring and assessment of microplastic pollution in water, sediment and fish: methodological aspect

Assessment of microplastics: current trends and techniques 8. Assessment of Microplastic pollution in estuarine environment 9. Microplastic in coastal marine sediments 10. Microplastic pollution in marine sea fish 11. Microplastic pollution in marine sea salt 12. Assessment of Microplastic pollution in seawater and marine algae 13. Microplastic pollution in marine sea food (Oyster, seaweeds) 14. Absorption of heavy metals on Microplastics 15. Scale of contamination level on heavy metals in microplastic 16. Nano plastic level contamination in marine environment

Management and Remediation 17. Microplastic risk assessment and impact on human health 18. Microplastic impact in global view: Regulation and Management practices 19. Reducing, Recycling and Fundamental Rethinking of Microplastics 20. Present Advances in Strategies to Mitigate the Microplastics contamination