Hydrographic Institute participates in international meeting

The Portuguese Navy Hydrographic Institute participated on September 14 and 15 at the final meeting of the JPIOceans “Ecological Aspects of Microplastics”, which took place at the Marine Institute in Galway.

At the meeting, several presentations of the projects that took place in the period 2019-2023 were made, and themes related to the identification, characterization and quantification of the largest sources of microplastics, new sampling and analytical methodologies, monitoring and mapping of microplastics and concepts related to the reduction of the entry of plastics into the marine environment were discussed.

The Hydrographic Institute, through the Division of Chemistry and Pollution of the Marine Environment, is a partner in the i-plastic project - Dispersion and impacts of micro- and nano-plastics in the tropical and temperate oceans: from regional land-ocean interface to the open ocean, having participated in the meeting with a presentation entitled – Microplastics in motion: Flux Dynamics from the Mondego river to the Eastern Atlantic, performed by the Superior Scholar Ana Beatriz Rebocho.

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