Acronym BASEMAN
Category
Fisheries
Title Defining the baselines and standards for microplastics analyses in European waters Programme JPI Ocean
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
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Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source Other Coordinator Gunnar Gerdts Coordinator email gunnar.gerdts@awi.de
Coordinator institution
AWI - Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Germany)
Institutions involved
SYKE - Finnish Environment Institute (Finland) ,
GMIT - Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (Ireland) ,
GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research (Germany) ,
NA - Le Mans Université (France) ,
CNRS-LOV - National Center for Scientific Research; Laboratory of Oceanography of Villefranche (France) ,
NIFES - National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (Norway) ,
OGS - National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (Italy) ,
CNR-IAMC - National Research Council; Institute for Coastal Marine Environment (Italy) ,
NOVA - New University of Lisbon (Portugal) ,
NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research (Norway) ,
NIVA - Norwegian Institute for Water Research (Norway) ,
IPMA - Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (Portugal) ,
SAHFOS - Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (United Kingdom) ,
IEO - Spanish Institute of Oceanography (Spain) ,
IVL - Swedish Environmental Research Institute (Sweden) ,
TLU - Tallinn University (Estonia) ,
UDC - University of A Coruña (Spain) ,
NA - University of Bayreuth (Germany) ,
UGOT - University of Gothenburg (Sweden) ,
Ulg - University of Liege (Belgium) ,
UOL - University of Oldenburg (Germany) ,
TU Wien - Vienna University of Technology (Austria) ,
Start year 2016 End year 2018 Funding (€) € NA Website https://repository.oceanbestpractices.org/handle/11329/1205 Summary Although microplastics (MP) are recognized as an emerging contaminant in the environment, currently neither sampling, extraction, purification nor identification approaches are standardized, making the increasing numbers of MP studies hardly ‐if at all‐ comparable. The overall goal of this interdisciplinary and international collaborative research project, is to overcome this problem through a profound and detailed comparison and evaluation of all approaches from sampling to identification of MP. Our collaborative research project combines experienced MP scientists (from different disciplines and countries) in a cutting edge project addressing the JPI Oceans (JPI‐O) pilot call “Ecological aspects of MP in the marine environment”. Our project tackles two major topics: 1) “The validation and harmonization of analytical methods” which is indispensable for 2), the “Identification and quantification of MP”. The results of the project will equip EU authorities with tools and operational measures that may be applied to describe the abundance and distribution of MP in the environment. Such tools will permit JPI‐O evaluation of member state compliance with existing and future monitoring requirements.
Keywords
Impacts;
Microplastics;
Protocol;
Monitoring;
Marine Region
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