Plastic Busters

University of Siena. Italy 🌍 SDSN (UN) - UfM project

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@InterregEuroMED MIRAMAR Meeting in Athens hosted by MIO and @HCMR. 🧬Research, mitigation and governance working together to safeguard the Mediterranean Biodiversity!

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The 4th Steering Committee meeting of the @InterregEuroMED MIRAMAR project took place yesterday in Athens. Eight partners from six Mediterranean countries, coordinated by @unisiena presented for the first time how to monitor and mitigate multiple impacts on key Med habitats!🐟🐋

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🌊 At MERCANTIA, one of Europe’s most renowned street theatre festivals, art and science came together to celebrate the sea through poetry, storytelling, and scientific knowledge.The event shared the inspiring journey of Professor Cristina Fossi and the Plastic BustersTeam!

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Particular attention was also devoted to assessing the presence of emerging contaminants in the Scopoli’s shearwater population through the analysis of fecal samples. Approximately 300 breeding pairs inhabit Lavezzi Island, making it one of the key breeding colonies in the area.

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As part of the Interreg Euro-MED MIRAMAR project, the OEC and Plastic Busters UNISI teams conducted an intensive sampling campaign in the Bouches de Bonifacio Nature Reserve to assess the multiple pressures affecting the biodiversity of seagrass meadows.

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On the occasion of World Oceans Day, Prof. Fossi will take part, worldwide, in a Rai Casa Italia programme dedicated to celebrating this important event. During the broadcast, the European project MIRAMAR are presented🐋!
https://t.co/KCvTmHaBim.

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🎯🐬Simultaneous sampling with 35 Manta trawls, 35 WP2 net, and floating litter monitoring. More than 15 eDNA samples and 100 sightings of groups of seabirds and cetaceans during the 7 days of field activities!

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7 days of intensive sampling activities conducted by 20 researchers from @UNISI, @CIMA and @OEC, monitoring 370 nautical miles between Tuscany and Corsica to assess how microplastics, emerging contaminants , climate change are impacting threatened seabirds in this important IBA.

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🔬An innovative sampling campaign is currently underway within the framework of the MIRAMAR project, between the Archipelago and Corsica.
@unisiena together with @CIMAFoundation and @OEC in Corsica, is investigating multiple impacts in the feeding areas of threatened seabirds!🎯

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🌊 On the occasion of Day Biodiversity 100 Students of Elba island Primary School took part in the initiative “Clean Beaches for a Clean Sea” in Marina di Campo.The event was organised by the Plastic Busters group of@unisiena,@parcoarcipelagotoscano @amici.cucciolotti_

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🌈 MIRAMAR in action!💪�� Sampling activity of bioindicaror species 🐟 in Massaciuccoli wetland of Parco di San Rossore National Park in Tuscany by UNISI team! Multiple stressors detection🎯🔬🧬!

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The whole MIRAMAR team 🙌🏻 together on the final day of activities at RBI in Rovinj for a training session on the multiple methodologies 🔬used to monitor cumulative impacts on Posidonia meadows. The shared operational toolkit 🧩will be ready soon.📗

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During the second day of activities in Croatia marine monitoring 🛥️activities were carried out, together with simulations of laboratory investigation 🔬techniques to diagnose multiple 🧩stressors ⚡️affecting Posidonia meadows

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🐋🐟🐬Three days of productive meetings in Rovinj for the Interreg Euro-MED MIRAMAR project. Eight Mediterranean partners hosted by RBI to identify new methodologies for monitoring multiple stressors in the Mediterranean, under the coordination of UNISI Plastic Busters.🐋

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Prof. M. Cristina Fossi represented Italy on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Italian Embassy in Vienna, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Fossi took part in the event “Women in Science: Breaking Frontiers”.🐋🐋

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PLASTIC BUSTERS research group at the University of Siena is involved in HARMONY, a newly funded international project coordinated by Università Politecnica Marche https://t.co/7ctr13nXcB

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On 1–2 December, the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station in Naples hosted the Final Meeting of NBFC – Spoke 2. During the two-day event, Spoke 2 partners (UNISI) presented key outcomes and discussed future directions for strengthening marine biodiversity conservation in the Med!

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Plastic Busters UNISI’s research activities for MIRAMAR are beginning in the wetlands of the San Rossore National Park (Tuscany)! 🌈Investigating multiple stressors 🎯🧩in these very important ecosystems contributes to the conservation of their biodiversity🦆🦅🐟🌿!

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🐋Important participation of Plastic Busters for the presentation of the MIRAMAR project at the Mission Natural Heritage event in Barcelona!

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📍 30 of October we presented MIRAMAR and MedPROACTpojects at the Union for the Mediterranean headquarters in Barcelona!
MIRAMAR is working to understand and reduce the pressures affecting our sea — from plastics to new contaminants, noise pollution, and climate impacts!