The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic – An online open conference!
From June 26th until July 14th, join this open online conference! Week 10-14th of July, join our presentation online on Citizen-Science projects to fight plastic pollution!
Author: Luisa
Marine biogeochemist & Sea Lover
If the oceans could speak…
OCEAN MOOC
Tomorrow is World Ocean’s Day…and how could we better celebrate the Ocean by knowing it and learning how important it is to us? Ocean MOOC
Join now, starts June 14th!
Preparations at HCMR
23rd of May
The adventure has started! Today was a ver
y hard day at HCMR but really important for our experiment: we prepared and cleaned all the equipment for the experiment with diluted HCl and water! It seems easy, but to wash each tank at least 3 people were needed!
And in the afternoon we placed the very protagonists of this experiment: mesocosms! They are not so little, they seem like big baskets containing around 3000 litres… of sea water! and 3 of them, microplastics that we will add! Everything is going good at HCMR, even if we had some last doubts before the very beginning and some little problems that were easily solved. Besides such things are just a routine for scientists! All the researchers are very gentle and nice with us, we had so much fun during the whole day in the lab! And we are also trying to learn some Greek words…
Meanwhile we enjoy the Greek cuisine!
Kalispera!
New experiment!
Check out our new page MESO-Plastic Experiment @Cretacosmos, Greece! We are on the field getting ready for the start. Chiara will take care of updating the page with news and pictures! You can check it out!
POSEIDOMM-team
Marine Litter MOOC 2017 – 2nd Edition
New micro plastics experiment: You can help!!
Help us reach the goal on experiment.com!
Thanks!
‘Do microplastics on our ocean’s surface have an effect on climate change? ‘ on @lets_experiment http://www.experiment.com/projects/do-microplastics-on-our-ocean-s-surface-have-an-effect-on-climate-change #forscience
POSEIDOMM@ASLO2017 Aquatic Sciences Meeting M2C
Hi all!
We are at the ASLO2017 meeting presenting results on our laboratory experiments and on the citizen-science and outreach project done by our volunteers! Mahalo for their support and effort!
Aloha!
Interview about POSEIDOMM in Horizon magazine of the EU
read the full article here
BSc Thesis on Microplastics in PCCPs in Italy!
On November 14th, 2016, BSc student Carmenzita D’Atri successfully defended her thesis for the BSc Degree in “Prevention techniques in the environment and working places”. Thesis title: “Study on Microplastics in Consumer’s Products in Italy“. This is the first study of this kind in Italy: Carmenzita conducted a survey in popular supermarkets in Siena looking for micro plastics-free and micro plastics-full personal care and consumer’s products. Carmenzita started drafting the first Italian review of products for the international campaign Beat the Microbead. Her BSc thesis was sponsored by EU-project POSEIDOMM. Thanks Carmenzita for the great job and hope to find many more motivated people following your first step!
