Sampling Surroundings

Rovaniemi is the regional capital of Lapland in Finland. The location is near the Arctic Circle in the northern interior of the country. The population is approximately 66 000 and it is the 17th most populous municipality in Finland. Rovaniemi is also the largest city in Europe by land area 8 016 km² of which 435 km² is water. Since the amazing nature and recreational opportunities (i.e. Santa Claus), tourism is an important industry in Rovaniemi. The sampling location situated with distance of 3 km from the city of Rovaniemi. The location is between different business activities and shopping possibilities, thus it is surrounded by roads with moderate activity.

Sampling

All equipment and microplastic water were prepared by Eurofins in Bergen/Norway and shipped to Rovaniemi/Finland.
The sampling started Friday 5th of July at 2 PM and was completed Friday 12th of July at 2 PM.
The weather information of the closest city is shown below.

Data for 5. – 12. July are collected from https://www.timeanddate.com for Rovaniemi.

FIELD NOTES

The samples were checked every day except for the Saturday and Sunday. It was checked that all samples where undisturbed by the wind and the funnel rinsed with water down into the sample but taking care to not use to much water (given the rainy weather).
At the end of the sampling the funnels were rinsed one last time, and the bottles closed with aluminum foil between the cork and the bottle before being returned to Eurofins in Bergen for testing.