AI tool aggregates microplastics across studies

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And across all those studies, plastics researchers use thousands of different categories for materials, shapes, and size ranges, which means those mounting data can’t be easily combined to show a larger picture.</span></p> </div> <div class="text-left article-content"> <p>In terms of data compatibility, “it’s been the Wild West for a long time,” says <a href="https://wincowger.com/" shape="rect" title="About Me – Win Cowger">Win Cowger, research director at Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research</a>. “We need a tool to wrangle everything together.”</p> </div> <div class="text-left article-content"> <p>Cowger joined forces with environmental science graduate student Hannah Hapich and <a href="http://www.thegraylab.org/" shape="rect" title="Gray Lab - Home">hydrologist Andrew Gray at the University of California, Riverside</a>, to create such a tool (<i>Environ. Sci. 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