Browsing by Author "Castillo, Azenith B."

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    • Field and laboratory investigation of tarmat deposits found on Ras Rakan Island and northern beaches of Qatar 

      Arekhi, Marieh; Terry, Leigh G.; John, Gerald F.; Al-Khayat, Jassim A.; Castillo, Azenith B.; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)
      © 2018 Elsevier B.V. Beaches of Ras Rakan Island, located off the northern tip of Qatar, are extensively contaminated by highly weathered tarmat deposits. The focus of this study is to determine the possible source of the ...

    • 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 ...