• Prevalence of microplastics in the marine waters of Qatar 

      Castillo, Azenith B.; Al-Maslamani, Ibrahim; Obbard, Jeffrey Philip ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      The issue of plastic pollution in the marine environment is of increasing global concern. As plastics typically have an intrinsic durability, water insolubility and slow degradation rates, debris has now become both ...
    • Prevalence of microplastics in the marine waters of Qatar 

      Castillo, Azenith B.; Al-Maslamani, Ibrahim; Obbard, Jeffrey Philip ( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)
      Microplastics are firmly recognized as a ubiquitous and growing threat to marine biota and their associated marine habitats worldwide. The evidence of the prevalence of microplastics was documented for the first time in ...
    • Radioactivity levels in the marine environment along the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Qatar 

      Al-Qaradawi, Ilham; Abdel-Moati, Mohamed; Al-Yafei, Mohsin Al-Ansi; Al-Ansari, Ebrahim; Al-Maslamani, Ibrahim; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)
      A study on 137Cs, 40K, 226Ra, 228Ra, and 238U was carried out along the EEZ of Qatar. Results serve as the first ever baseline data. The level of 137Cs (mean value 1.6 ± 0.4 Bq m 3) in water filters was found to be in the ...