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WADIM: Water-Associated infectious Diseases in India: digital Management tools

WADIM aims to develop a multi-layered digital tool to map sanitation conditions and occurrence of disease and changes therein, especially in the event of flooding due to monsoon rainfall or natural disasters.

TYRE-LOSS: Lost at Sea – where are all the tyre particles?

Tyre particles are increasingly recognised as a potentially major source of microplastic pollution, yet limited data exists on their accumulation and risks in the marine environments. The TYRE-LOSS project is tackling this critical knowledge gap.

BIO-PLASTIC-RISK: Biodegradable Bioplastics – Assessing Environmental Risk

Biodegradable bioplastics (BBPs) offer promising solutions to the global plastic pollution challenge. However, our understanding of their fate in the natural environment and potential environmental effects is limited. The Bio-Risk Plastic Project brings together experts from various fields to comprehensively…

ProBleu: Promoting ocean and water literacy in school communities

ProBleu aims to mobilise and engage students, school communities, and the wider community across the EU and associated countries to enhance understanding, stewardship, and literacy about oceans and waters, with a focus on restoring them by 2030 and growing the…

AgZero+

Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) is a partner in a major five-year £13.8 million research programme, named “AgZero+’, to support the UK’s transition towards home-grown food production that is sustainable, carbon-neutral and has a positive effect on nature.

FRONTAL: Satellite FRONTs for detection of Anthropogenic plastic Litter

Fronts in coastal and oceanic regions are hot-spots for rich and diverse marine life, where floating marine debris also tends to accumulate. FRONTAL is developing a prototype for identifying areas at risk of accumulating plastic pollution to aid management of…

FutureMARES: Climate Change and Future Marine Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity

FutureMARES is examining the relations between climate change, marine biodiversity and ecosystem services.

South Asian Nitrogen Hub

The South Asian Nitrogen Hub is a pioneering UK-South Asia research partnership to enable South Asia to adopt and champion a strategic approach to nitrogen management, as a key step towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

Atlantic Ecosystem Assessment, Forecasting and Sustainability (AtlantECO)

AtlantECO is working to understand the human impacts on the marine ecosystems and processes in the Atlantic. The main focus of the project is to determine the structure and function of Atlantic microbiome in the context of ocean circulation and…

Copernicus Evolution: Research for harmonised and Transitional water Observation (CERTO)

CERTO will provide solutions to harmonise water quality products across a continuum of oceans, seas, coasts, estuaries, lagoons, rivers and lakes, to support industry, policy-makers and academia. The project will create a prototype system for Earth observation data that will…

The Economics of Marine Plastic Pollution: What are the Benefits of International Cooperation

The Economics of Marine Plastic Pollution: What are the Benefits of International Cooperation? project is calculating the economic costs of the environmental damages associated with marine plastic and the benefits of cross-country coordinated action to address the problem.

Biological Pump and Carbon Exchange Processes (BICEP)

Project start: January 2020 – currently ongoing The ocean carbon cycle is a vital part of the global carbon cycle. It has been estimated that around a quarter of anthropogenically-produced emissions of CO2, caused from the burning of fossil fuels…