Outreach and dissemination
IMP.act Webinar
On the 02/10/2020, a Zoom webinar was organised that included as panelists:
Catherine Barrett from Ireland’s Seafood Development Agency Fishing for Litter Initiative;
Sinead McCoy from An Taisce’s Clean Coasts;
Sabine Springer, artist and scientist,
Haleigh Joyce and Fiona Kavanagh from GMIT.
This webinar was hosted by João Frias, Elena Pagter and Róisín Nash from GMIT.
A total of 87 people attended this event, where 25% were in Connacht, 18% in Ulster, 10% in Munster and 5% in Leinster. About 35% of participants were based in Europe and 7% in Asia.
In this event a booklet on the perceptions about marine anthropogenic litter and microplastic pollution in Ireland was released and can be found in Deliverable 4.2 by clicking in button below.
New Open Access paper on floating microplastics in Galway Bay
A new golden open access manuscript has been published in the scientific journal Marine Pollution Bulletin under the title:
“Floating microplastics in a coastal embayment: A multifaceted issue”
H2020 Career Progression for Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) fellows in Ireland
Attendance in the MSCA event in Dublin, 12th September 2018, where I pitched the IMP.act project to Jim Carroll, editor of RTEBrainstorm
International Coastal Cleanup 2018 - Galway
Beach cleanup action in #Galway in the 15th September 2018, along the shoreline at Claddagh beside Nimmo’s Pier. #InternationalCoastalCleanup #citizenscience #marinelitter #microplastics
National Day of the Sea in Portugal in FCT-UNL
Invited speaker to raise awareness about marine litter and microplastic pollution in the one-day event organised by the Library of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (16th November 2018)
International Conference #MICRO2018 in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain
Sharing results from JPI-Oceans BASEMAN project and from IRC funded IMP.act project between 19th and 23rd of November 2018
IMP.act.sea.I cruise (CV19003) on board of the R/V Celtic Voyager
A team composed of young researchers, MSc students and PhD students boarded the Celtic Voyager between 2nd and 6th of February 2019, to collect water surface, sediment and biota samples that contribute to the IMP.act project. The link below directs to the Marine Institute Scientists at Sea blog
JPI-Oceans Seminar January 2019
The seminar aimed to inform and interact about ongoing JPI Oceans actions and projects and their policy impact; to galvanize synergies and collaboration with the European Commission, European Parliament and other international (scientific) organisations and highlight the added value of JPI-Oceans and its importance in the marine research policy landscape.
The seminar was organised at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Rue Ducale 1, Brussels on 17 January 2019 from 12.00 to 17.00.
Photos by Willem De Moor avaliable in the JPI Oceans gallery. More details in the link below
IWDG - Dolphin necropsies in the Regional Veterinary Laboratory Cork
On the 21st of March 2019, we head down to the RVL in Cork to observe our first dolphin necropsies performed by an expert veterinary doctor.