News related to: Ecological Aspects of Microplastics
HOTMIC research project completes its first expedition
- 07 April 2020
The JPI Oceans HOTMIC project, coordinated by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, aims to close knowledge gaps about the fate of plastic in the oceans.
Four JPI Oceans microplastics projects present their final results
- 26 November 2019
How does plastic degrade in the ocean? What effects does it have on the organisms and ecosystems? Do particles carry other pollutants? And how to standardise the way we study microplastics? The four JPI Oceans funded projects present their results in their final reports.
JPI Oceans partners and Brazil fund five international joint projects of cutting.edge research on microplastics in the oceans
- 30 September 2019
Five projects are selected for funding to conduct research on sources of microplastics, methods for identifying smaller micro- and (nano-) plastics and monitoring their circulation in marine systems and their effects thereon.
Strong response to joint call on microplastics in the marine environment
- 06 March 2019
By close of call end of February, 38 project proposals were submitted requesting €42 Million.