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20. Diana, Z.T., McGee, S., Chinglenthoiba, C., Valiyaveettil, S., Tebben, J., Harder, T., Rittschof, D. Under review. Plastic leachates stimulate feeding responses in sea anemones. Environmental Science & Technology.

19. De Frond, H. Baechler, B., Debreceni, S., Diana, Z., Fox, R., Gutierrez, R. Leonard, G., Mallos, N. Sherlock, C., Weller, S., and Rochman, C.M. Under review. Cleanups are an important part of the solution to global plastic pollution. One Earth.

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18. Diana, Z.T., Chen, Y., and Rochman, C.M. In Press. Paint: a ubiquitous yet disregarded piece of the microplastics puzzle. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

17. Diana, Z.T., Rochman, C.M., Mallos, N., 2024. UN plastic pollution treaty must not ignore the scourge of microplastics. Nature 634, 545–545. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03360-y

16. Griffin, M. Diana, Z., Karasik, R., Dunphy-Daly, M. M. In Press. Do plastic clean-up technologies work? What research does (and doesn't) tell us. Marine Pollution Bulletin.

15. Chowdhury, G.W., Koldewey, H.J., Niloy, Md.N.H., Khan, M.M.R., Das, N., Patel, S., Nishat, B., Diana, Z.T., Tsydenova, N., Sarker, S., 2024. Discarded fishing net pollution in coastal areas of Bangladesh. Science of The Total Environment 175529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175529

14. Vincoff, S., Schleupner, B., Santos, J., Morrison, M., Zhang, N., Dunphy-Daly, M.M., Eward, W.C., Armstrong, A.J., Diana, Z., and Somarelli, J., In press. Toxicogenomic analysis of the carcinogenic potential of plastic additives. Environmental Science & Technology.

13. Diana, Z.T., Virdin, J., Nowlin, M.B., Jayasundara, N., Rittschof, D., 2024. Transdisciplinary doctoral training to address global sustainability challenges. PLOS Sustainability and Transformation 3, e0000091. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pstr.000009

12. Falk-Andersson, J., Rognerud, I., De Frond, H., Leone, G., Karasik, R., Diana, Z., Dijkstra, H., Ammendolia, J., Eriksen, M., Utz, R., Walker, T.R., Fürst, K., 2023. Cleaning Up without Messing Up: Maximizing the Benefits of Plastic Clean-Up Technologies through New Regulatory Approaches. Environmental Science & Technology acs.est.3c01885.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c01885

See media coverage of this research by Science Norway, Der Spiegel, and the International Knowledge Hub Against Plastic Pollution.

11. Diana, Z., Virdin, J., Valiyaveettil, S., Li, H.-X., Rittschof, D., 2023. Editorial: Emerging challenges and solutions for plastic pollution. Frontiers in Marine Science 10, 1162680. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1162680

 10. Diana, Z., Reilly, K., Karasik, R., Vegh, T., Wang, Y., Wong, Z., Dunn, L., Blasiak, R., Dunphy-Daly, M.M., Rittschof, D., Vermeer, D., Pickle, A., Virdin, J., 2022. Voluntary commitments made by the world’s largest companies focus on recycling and packaging over other actions to address the plastics crisis. One Earth 5, 1286–1306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.10.008

 See media coverage of this research by The Hill, Popular Science, and 46 others news platforms.

9. Diana, Z., Karasik, R., Merrill, G.B., Morrison, M., Corcoran, K.A., Vermeer, D., Hepler-Smith, E., Jayasundara, N., Pare, J., Virdin, J., Eward, W.C., Somarelli, J.A., Dunphy-Daly, M.M., Rittschof, D., 2022. A transdisciplinary approach to reducing global plastic pollution. Frontiers in Marine Science 9, 1032381. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1032381

 8. Amon, D., Metaxas, A., Stentiford, G., Escovar-Fadul, X., Walker, T.R., Diana, Z., Karathanasi, F., Voyer, M., Hemery, L., 2022. Blue economy for a sustainable future. One Earth 5, 960–963. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.08.017

 7. Diana, Z., Vegh, T., Karasik, R., Bering, J., D. Llano Caldas, J., Pickle, A., Rittschof, D., Lau, W., Virdin, J., 2022. The evolving global plastics policy landscape: An inventory and effectiveness review. Environmental Science & Policy 134, 34–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.03.028

 6. Ward, C.S.,* Diana, Z.,* Ke, K.M., Orihuela, B., Schultz, T.P., Rittschof, D., 2022. Microbiome Development of seawater-incubated pre-production plastic pellets reveals distinct and predictive community compositions. Frontiers in Marine Science 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.807327

 5. Fuirst, M., Ward, C.S., Schwaner, C., Diana, Z., Schultz, T.F., Rittschof, D., 2021. Compositional and functional microbiome variation between tubes of an intertidal polychaete and surrounding marine sediment. Frontiers in Marine Science 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.656506

 4. Schmaltz, E.*, Melvin, E.C.*, Diana, Z.* Gunady, E.F., Rittschof, D., Somarelli, J.A., Virdin, J., Dunphy-Daly, M.M., 2020. Plastic pollution solutions: emerging technologies to prevent and collect marine plastic pollution. Environment International 144, 106067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.106067

See media coverage of this research by The Guardian, Discover Magazine, and Earth.org.

 3. Diana, Z., Sawickij, N., Rivera, N.A., Hsu-Kim, H., Rittschof, D., 2020. Plastic pellets trigger feeding responses in sea anemones. Aquatic Toxicology 222, 105447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2020.105447

 See media coverage of this research by UNC TV.

2. Turner, P.J., Ball, B., Diana, Z., Fariñas-Bermejo, A., Grace, I., McVeigh, D., Powers, M.M., Van Audenhaege, L., Maslakova, S., Young, C.M., Van Dover, C.L., 2020. Methane seeps on the US Atlantic margin and their potential importance to populations of the commercially valuable deep-sea red crab, Chaceon quinquedens. Frontiers in Marine Science 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00075

 1. So, C.R., Scancella, J.M., Fears, K.P., Essock-Burns, T., Haynes, S.E., Leary, D.H., Diana, Z., Wang, C., North, S., Oh, C.S., Wang, Z., Orihuela, B., Rittschof, D., Spillmann, C.M., Wahl, K.J., 2017. Oxidase activity of the barnacle adhesive interface involves peroxide-dependent catechol oxidase and lysyl oxidase enzymes. ACS Applied Material Interfaces 9, 11493–11505. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b01185

*Designates co-first authorship.

An underline indicates students whom I mentored or co-mentored.