Environmental Science & Technology 
Elena Hengstmann — Federal Maritime and Hydrographic 
Agency (BSH), Marine Sciences Department, Hamburg 
22589, Germany 
Torben Kirchgeorg — Federal Maritime and Hydrographic 
Agency (BSH), Marine Sciences Department, Hamburg 
22589, Germany 
Koen Parmentier — Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 
Operational Directorate Natural Environment, Brussels 1000, 
Belgium; ® orcid.org/0000-0003-1088-9125 
Christof Van Poucke — Flanders Research Institute for 
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Sciences Unit— 
Aquatic Environment and Quality, Ostend 8400, Belgium; 
» orcid.org/0000-0001-7566-925X 
Putu Yolanda Yulikayani — Flanders Research Institute for 
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Sciences Unit— 
Aquatic Environment and Quality, Ostend 8400, Belgium; 
B orcid.org/0009-0009-1884-6577 
Bavo De Witte — Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, 
Fisheries and Food, Animal Sciences Unit—Aquatic 
Environment and Quality, Ostend 8400, Belgium 
Complete contact information is available at: 
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Author Contributions 
D.V.: Methodology, formal analysis, investigation, writing— 
original draft, visualization. P.Z.-C.: investigation, writing— 
review & editing. K.D.C.: Conceptualization, investigation, 
writing—review & editing. J.C.-J.: Conceptualization, writing— 
review & editing. E.H.: Conceptualization, investigation, 
writing—review & editing. T.K.: Investigation, writing—review 
& editing. K.P.: Methodology, writing—review & editing. 
C.V.P.: Methodology, investigation, writing—review & editing. 
P.Y.Y.: Methodology, writing—review & editing. B.D.W.: 
Conceptualization, methodology, writing—review & editing, 
supervision. 
Funding 
This study was done as part of the Interreg North Sea Project 
Anemoi (Project number 41—-2—13—22), which was cofunded 
5y the European Union. 
Notes 
The authors declare no competing financial interest. 
BE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
The author thanks the crew of the research vessel Belgica, which 
was financed by Belspo and RBINS OD Nature and the crew of 
‘he research vessel VWES Atair (BSH, Germany). The authors 
also thank the operators of the sampled wind farms for their 
cooperation, Hereon for the support during the sampling in the 
GPNS, Nadege Bely from IFREMER for the sample preparation 
and transportation, and the laboratory technicians of the ILVO 
Marine Analytical Lab, Ecochem, and Stijn Degroote from the 
chromatographic lab of ILVO Technology of Food for technical 
support. 
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