Thompson's paper, Lost at Sea: Where is All the Plastic?,[4] published in the journal Science in 2004, was the first to use the term microplastics, which has since become common parlance.[5][6][7]
Since 2010 he has been professor of Marine Biology at the University of Plymouth.[8] Since 2018 he has also been director of the Marine Institute, part of the School of Biological and Marine Sciences at the University.[8] He also leads the University's International Marine Litter Research Unit.[9][10]
Publications
Thompson, Richard. (2006). Plastics. In: Dominant Wave Theory. By Andrew Hughes. Pp. 112–116. London: Booth-Clibborn, 2006. ISBN9781861542847. New York: Abrams, 2007. ISBN9780810993099.
Readman, J.W., DeLuna, F. Ebinhaus, R., Guzman, A.N., Price A.R.G., Readman, E.E. Sheppard, A.L.S., Sleight, A.S. Strum, R. Thompson, R.C. Tonkin, A.Wolschke, H., Wright, R., and Sheppard, R.C. (2013) Coral Reefs of the World.
Thompson, R.C. (2013) Plastics, Environment and Health. In: Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastics. Edited by Gabrys, J., Hawkins, G. and Michael, M. Hardback: Routledge, 2013. ISBN9780415625821. Paperback: Routledge, 2017. ISBN9781138063068. Pp. 150–169.
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