POSEIDOMM in Euronews Futuris!
http://www.euronews.com/2018/03/26/impact-of-microplastics-in-marine-ecosystems
Euronews program FUTURIS will feature POSEIDOMM
A short preview of what journalists Denis Loctier and Thierry Winn from EURONEWS have been filming last week in Tavarnelle Val di Pesa and Siena. Will be on air in March.
Is there still a place on Earth not polluted with #microplastics? Dr Steven Loiselle (@unisiena/@earthwatch_org) talked to #Futuris on @euronews: pic.twitter.com/3ow3CGJcOO
— Denis Loctier (@Loctier) February 1, 2018
Our oceans are littered with plastic. Many rivers carry plastic waste into seas. Volunteers sample rivers in Tuscany 4-6 times a year, helping scientists understand the problem at its source. Watch our #Futuris on https://t.co/XASCVboTP5 project on @euronews this March. pic.twitter.com/LgycwnBYCE
— Denis Loctier (@Loctier) January 28, 2018
The plastic inside us
Citizen-Science POSEIDOMM project on National TV
The outreach initiatives of the EU-funded POSEIDOMM project, in collaboration with the EarthWatch Institute and the global FreshWaterWatch community, have been featured on national TV news on Monday, July 3rd. Thanks to all our citizen scientists trying to preserve and protect the aquatic environments for today’s and future generations!!
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!
If the oceans could speak…
World’s Ocean Day. It’s on us.
from National Geographic
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!
Day 11
Day 11
Ooops…I said last sampling was yesterday! Well, we had another one today. Just for the bulk, easy one, CO2, nutrients, chlorophyll, POC, flow cytometry…we had a final meeting all together, to discuss latest results, follow up, and have some cake and wine together and then we went to visit the Cretaquarium! That was great! Great end of the experiment! We said goodbye to Eleni who was going back to Athens – by ferry, overnight! We will miss her.
We went back home, walking by the sea-side. We cooked and went to bed and maybe, for the first time after two weeks, we really slept like stones! In the next days we’ll be around at the institute.. packing, some office work, checking samples.. then a few days of holidays in Crete and back to Italy.
With the hope to come back here one day, maybe for another mesocosms experiment…That has been really an amazing experience!
Day 10
Day 10
Last day of sampling! Last cleaning of the equipment, last filtration of microplastics, last analysis of chlorophyll and the metals, and flow cytometer… Last goodbye to all the funnels and all the glass plates… Well, maybe we won’t miss them so much! But all the experiment was such an emotion to me, and very interesting! The balance is very positive in every case… I learnt many techniques and many information useful for my biological studies and I known very nice people here… I feel very lucky to be part of this team! Now Luisa can finally relax and enjoy after the whole work! She has just to gather all the results and make a complete summary of the experiment… but we will see in the next months! Thanks to everybody, great job 🙂
Luisa, Ioanna, Eleni and me in the lab for the last filtrations
Day 9
Day 9
This morning was very very hot and the SML sampling was very challenging! It’s Sunday, we were very few at the institute and there was a strange silence inside! However we did all the analysis and we managed to finish not so late just in time to have a bath! The experiment is going to end soon, as nutrients are low and everything is going to come back to normality… It was such a beautiful adventure! But maybe it’s better to leave the comment for tomorrow, after the last SML sampling!