At the end of July, a collaborative sampling campaign took place between entities of two European projects financed by JPI Oceans: RESPONSE and FACTS, both focused on contamination by microplastics in marine waters. The main objective of this campaign was to compare two microplastic sampling methods at points with different degrees of contamination in the Ría de Vigo.

LAnd Based solutions for PLAstics in the Sea Kick-oFF Meeting

The digital bulletin of the University of Vigo, duvi, echoes the start of the European project LABPLAS that, led by UVigo, will track the origin of the plastic present in the environment with the ultimate goal of "reducing the entry of plastics into the environment" . The field work will be carried out in the North Sea, the Elbe (Germany) and Thames (England) rivers and around the Cecebre reservoir (Galicia).

The third GLAUKOS general project meeting took place (hybrid mode) last 16 and 17th of June, also the month in which the project reaches its first year. 

The meeting was very dynamic and we shared progress and promising early results, that will allow us to be on track with objectives. Below are the faces of the amazing team behind GLAUKOS:

List of interviewed candidates, selected candidate and waiting list:

(selected) CGS

Waiting list:

1. BCN
2. LF
3. PSG
4. SRR

Evaluated aspects and score (Fair: 1; Good: 2; Excellent: 3): 

i. Previous experience in research management in international environments

ii. Communication skills: fluency in oral English, analysis, order, maturity

Ricardo Beiras, principal investigator and leader of the ECOTOX research group, will participate as guest speaker at the "3rd Virtual Edition of Polymers, Plastics and Composites" (Virtual Polymers-2021).

Virtual Polymers-2021 will take place on May 11-12, 2021 and the intervention of prof. Beiras will focus, among others, on one of the latest articles published by ECOTOX, entitled "Aquatic toxicity of chemically defined microplastics can be explained by functional additives".

"Vitellogenin gene expression in marine mussels exposed to ethinylestradiol: no induction at the transcriptional level"

Journal: Marine Environmental Research

Author (s): Laura Emilia Fernández-González, Paula Sánchez-Marín, Camino Gestal, Ricardo Beiras and Angel P. Díz

Publication date: available online March 26, 2021

Highlights:

Professor Ricardo Beiras (ECOTOX's Principal Researcher) participated on March 23rd in the virtual event "Deciphering the future of biodegradable materials for marine applications", organized by AZTI scientific and technological center, with the presentation entitled "Are biopolymers the remedy for the plastics disease? Considerations from marine ecotoxicology. "