Author: Luisa
Citizen-Scientists FWW training
Citizen-scientists training for FreshWater Watch – POSEIDOMM monitoring on June 8th, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa (Italy)@Sala della Giunta Comunale, h. 21.
Celebrate World Oceans Day!
POSEIDOMM celebrates World Oceans Day! Find our tonight’s event on http://www.worldoceansday.org
HEALTHY RIVERS, HEALTHY SEAS – CITIZEN SCIENTISTS TRAINING IN AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS MONITORING
The Better Bag Challenge #WaveforChange #WorldsOceanDay
Join the Movement! Starting June 8th, help the ocean by avoiding disposable plastic bags for at least one year. I made my commitment. Let’s see how good I’ll be doing!
World Oceans Day Today, June 8th
Today is World Oceans Day, let’s make a commitment to the Oceans! Join the #WaveforChange and help fighting plastic pollution!
World Oceans Day is a global day of ocean celebration and collaboration for a better future. This year’s theme is “Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet” and individuals and organizations across the planet are taking action for prevention of plastic pollution in our ocean.
High school students training FWW
FreshWater Watch High School students training @ Liceo Linguistico Giovanni Pascoli, Florence (Italy).
The outreach part of POSEIDOMM project has started yesterday with the first high-school students in Italy joining the global community of FreshWater Watch citizen scientists! After a training at school and a training outdoor, here you go, ready to get samples! In the picture you can see the students of IV D/L (Liceo Linguistico G. Pascoli, Florence, Italy) and science teacher Prof. Bruna Figliomeni. The students will use the data collected for their science exam at the end of next school year (end of high school, 2017). We will tell you more in the next months…have a nice summer and nice sampling everyone!
Marjo and Edwin@Ocean Conservation and Research
Marjo and Edwin, adventurers, seafarers and environmental advocates welcomed me into their house on the ocean in Lanzarote. They are really great people and I hope we can manage to work out something together, bringing them to the Mediterranean Sea on cooperative projects.
Orion of Aberdeen, a 17 meter (54 ft.) Koopmans Vanguard design steel ketch, built in 1988, is their home and they sail throughout the world with a minimal carbon footprint, reaching areas of difficult access and helping us scientists filling data gaps.
Ocean Conservation and Research is a platform for research, a platform for education and a platform for connections: by working together, scientists and citizens and advocates of the sea, we can contribute gathering knowledge about the oceans, their importance, and the threats they are facing, like plastic pollution.
Thanks Marjo and Edwin for the great job and for welcoming me to your world!

Orion of Aberdeen in Lanzarote, May 2016. @LG

Marjo and Edwin on their sailing boat. @LG
Micro2016 Conference in Lanzarote: POSEIDOMM talk
Lanzarote, Canary islands (Spain), May 25th:
Micro2016 International Conference “Fate and Impact of Microplastics in Marine Ecosystems: From the Coastline to the Open Sea” held in Lanzarote, POSEIDOMM talk given by Luisa (Session V):
Tackling microplastics on land: citizen observatories of anthropogenic litter dynamics within POSEIDOMM project
First FreshWater Watch Project in Italy! POSEIDOMM-outreach
Osservatorio cittadino per il monitoraggio del fiume Pesa
Il Comune di Tavarnelle Val di Pesa in collaborazione con l’Associazione Cittadinanza Attiva e Partecipazione organizza venerdì 13 maggio 2016 alle ore 21:15 presso la Sala Don Bruni del Circolo MCL di Sambuca Val di Pesa l’iniziativa:
- Presentazione del progetto “Osservatorio cittadino per il monitoraggio del fiume Pesa – FreshWater Watch – dell’EarthWatch Institute
- Proiezione del documentario “Plastic Paradise – The Great Pacific Garbage Patch”
Interverranno:
- David Baroncelli, Sindaco di Tavarnelle Val di Pesa
- Marco Rustioni, Assessore Politiche Ambientali di Tavarnelle Val di Pesa
- Steven Loiselle, The EarthWatch Institute, Università di Siena
- Luisa Galgani, Coordinatrice del progetto, Università di Siena
- Gianluca Gasperini, citizen – scientist, Università di Siena
Original post: http://www.tavarnellevp.it/in-primo-piano/1316-progetto-osservatorio-cittadino-per-monitoraggio-pesa
Scarica la locandina dell’evento in formato PDF qui.