A5072871279- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Water Quality Monitoring Technologies
- Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Marine and fisheries research
- Polar Research and Ecology
- Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Conferences and Exhibitions Management
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Remote-Sensing Image Classification
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Maritime Navigation and Safety
- Environmental Engineering and Cultural Studies
- Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions
- Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
National Research Council
2015-2025
Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
2016-2025
Institute of Structure of Matter
2015-2024
Bologna Research Area
2022
Instituto Español de Oceanografía
2017-2020
Institut de Ciències del Mar
2019
NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation
2016
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
2014
Abstract Marine plastic debris floating on the ocean surface is a major environmental problem. However, its distribution in poorly mapped, and most of waste estimated to have entered from land unaccounted for. Better understanding how transported coastal marine sources crucial quantify close global inventory plastics, which turn represents critical information for mitigation or policy strategies. At same time, unique tracer that provides an opportunity learn more about physics dynamics our...
Abstract The Mediterranean Sea has been recently proposed as one of the most impacted regions world with regards to microplastics, however polymeric composition these floating particles is still largely unknown. Here we present results a large-scale survey neustonic micro- and meso-plastics in waters, providing first extensive characterization their chemical identity well detailed information on abundance geographical distribution. All >700 μm collected our samples were identified through...
Contrary to global production, most fibers floating in the ocean are not synthetic but natural of animal or plant origin.
While macroplastics have been washing up on Southern Ocean islands for decades and microplastics found in seabirds from the region since 1960, there are still relatively few quantitative data amount of plastic pollution, especially with regard to floating plastics, at high southern latitudes. We present a baseline estimate abundance plastics around survey macro-, meso- microplastic pollution conducted during Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition 2016/17. A total 40 net trawls 626 h...
Marine ecosystems are experiencing substantial disturbances due to climate change and overfishing, plastic pollution is an additional growing threat. Microfibres among the most pervasive pollutants in marine environment, including Southern Ocean. However, evidence for microfibre contamination diet of top predators Ocean rare. King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) feed on mesopelagic fish, which undergo diel vertical migrations towards surface at night. concentrated waters sediments but can...
The ocean and human activities related to the sea are under increasing pressure due climate change, widespread pollution, growth of offshore energy sector. Data, in under-sampled regions patches where industrial expansion is taking place, fundamental manage successfully a sustainable development mitigate change. Existing technology cannot cope with vast harsh environments that need monitoring sampling most. limiting factors are, among others, spatial scales physical domain, high pressure,...
Abstract Worldwide, governments are implementing strategies to combat marine litter. However, their effectiveness is largely unknown because we lack tools systematically monitor litter over broad spatio-temporal scales. Metre-sized aggregations of floating debris generated by sea-surface convergence lines have been reported as a reliable target for detection from satellites. Yet, the usefulness such ephemeral, scattered proxy sustained, large-scale monitoring remains an open question...
Visual ship transect surveys provide crucial information about the density, and spatial distribution of floating anthropogenic litter in a basin. However, such observations 'snapshot' local conditions at given time cannot be used to deduce provenance or predict its fate, for management mitigation policies. Particle tracking techniques have seen extensive use these roles, however, most previous studies simplistic initial based on bulk average inputs debris system. Here, macro Adriatic Sea are...
Using seabirds as bioindicators of marine plastic pollution requires an understanding how the retained in each species compares with that found their environment. We show brown skua Catharacta antarctica regurgitated pellets can be used to characterise plastics four seabird taxa breeding central South Atlantic, even though might underrepresent smallest items prey. Fregetta storm petrels ingested more thread-like and white-faced Pelagodroma marina industrial than broad-billed prions...
We report the results of a visual survey floating natural (NML) and anthropogenic (AML) macro-litter (>2.5 cm) performed in central part Mediterranean Sea during dual-use campaign onboard Italian Navy tall ship “Amerigo Vespucci” which circumnavigated peninsula May-June 2016. The distribution, abundance composition marine litter were assessed using 10 m fixed-width strip transect method. Over 88 h counts performed, for total 168 transects, covering an overall length 1026.35 km. 4756 items...
Large-area, artificial floating marine litter (FML) targets were deployed during a controlled field experiment and data acquisition campaign: the Plastic Litter Project 2021. A set of 22 Sentinel-2 images, along with UAS ancillary measurements acquired. Spectral analysis FML natural debris (wooden planks) was performed, spectral comparison separability between other materials such as mucilage pollen. The effects biofouling submersion on signal also investigated under realistic conditions....