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Lucrecia Alvarez Barrantes

Postgraduate Researcher

Summary

Lucrecia is a Civil Engineer, with a Master in Hydrology. She is a second year PhD in the Energy and Environment Institute. She is as part of the Plastic in the Environment Research Cluster. Her research area is the transport and deposition of microplastic fluxes in rivers, laboratory microplastic experiments and numerical models . Since 2009, Lucrecia has being involved in studies related with estimations of rivers flows, sediment transport hydrodynamics models and environmental impacts in rivers. ​

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Journal Article

Insights into technical challenges in the field of microplastic pollution through the lens of early career researchers (ECRs) and a proposed pathway forward

Danopoulos, E., Stanton, T., Ma, Y., Horton, A. A., Chen, Q., Levermore, J. M., …Nel, H. A. (2023). Insights into technical challenges in the field of microplastic pollution through the lens of early career researchers (ECRs) and a proposed pathway forward. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, Article 1271547. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1271547

Research interests

Sediment transport, hydrology, hydraulics , microplastic

Postgraduate supervision

Transport and deposition of microplastic particles in rivers

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