JPI Oceans Communicators Event

We would like to thank Jella Kandziora of JPI Oceans for facilitating a morning of discussions of potential joint communications actions in the coming year . The online meeting was attended by the six selected microplastics projects, funded under the Joint Action Ecological Aspects of Microplastics call including our sister project:

• RESPONSE - Toward a risk-based assessment of microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems - Coordinator: Prof Francesco Regoli, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy

• ANDROMEDA - Analysis techniques for quantifying nano-and microplastic particles and their degradation in the marine environment – Coordinator: Dr Richard Sempéré, Université d'Aix-Marseille, France

• FACTS - Fluxes and Fate of Microplastics in Northern European Waters – Coordinator: Prof Jes Vollertsen, Aalborg University, Denmark

• HOTMIC - Horizontal and vertical oceanic distribution, transport, and impact of microplastics – Coordinator: Dr Mark Lenz, GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Germany

• microplastiX - Integrated approach on the fate of MicroPlastics (MPs) towards healthy marine ecosystems - Prof Luca Brandt KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

• i-plastic - Dispersion and impacts of micro- and nano-plastics in the tropical and temperate oceans: from regional land-ocean interface to the open ocean – Coordinator: Prof Patrizia Ziveri, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Communications and Dissemination lead Kathrin Kopke of University College Cork presented an overview of the RESPONSE project’s key activities in 2022 focusing in particular on potential synergies with the attending projects in our upcoming stakeholder workshops which aim to address scientific knowledge in the public domain.