Diana Lab: Pollution Problem-Solving

Barnard College, Columbia University

Publications

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Asterisk* designates co-first authorship and an underline designates students mentored or co-mentored.

Journal Articles Under Review

20. Diana, Z.T., Ford, J.L., Rubinovitz, R., Turner, A., Milne, M., and Rochman, C.M. Under Review. A Paint Library of Plastic Particles (PLoPP): a spectral library, visual key, and machine learning model for paint microplastic identification. Analytical Chemistry.

19. 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. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.

Journal Articles

18. De Frond, H., Baechler, B.R., Debreceni, S., Diana, Z.T., Fox, R., Gutierrez, R.F., Leonard, G.H., Mallos, N.J., Sherlock, C., Weller, S., Rochman, C.M., 2025. Cleanups are an important part of the solution to global plastic pollution. One Earth 8, 101281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101281

17. Diana, Z.T., Chen, Y., Rochman, C.M., 2025. Paint: a ubiquitous yet disregarded piece of the microplastics puzzle. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 44, 26–44. https://doi.org/10.1093/etojnl/vgae034

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

15. Griffin, M.D., Diana, Z.T., Karasik, R., Dunphy-Daly, M.M., 2024. Do plastic clean-up technologies work? What research does (and doesn’t) tell us. Marine Pollution Bulletin 209, 116978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116978

14. Vincoff, S., Schleupner, B., Santos, J., Morrison, M., Zhang, N., Dunphy-Daly, M.M., Eward, W.C., Armstrong, A.J., Diana, Z., Somarelli, J.A., 2024. The known and unknown: investigating the carcinogenic potential of plastic additives. Environmental Science & Technology. acs.est.3c06840. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c06840

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.0000091

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

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

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

  • Invited Perspective article

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

  • One of the journal’s most frequently downloaded articles and featured in The Guardian

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

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 U.S. 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