Life LEMA develops several activities to collect important data for the project. On this occasion, we talk about the little wooden boats that are launched into the sea from the boats of the project with the aim of knowing more about the dynamics of the
On October 4th we held the second of the three Expert Workshop of the Life LEMA project at the AZTI facilities in Pasaia (San Sebastián). We held these meetings in order to find common answers for the management of floating marine litter in transboundary waters
The 24th of August the first edition of the festival Itsasoaren Soinuak (“Sounds of the ocean” in basque) was held in Donostia-San Sebastián. This festival took place at Ondarreta beach, in order to raise awareness of the importance of the correct debris management in the
On Wednesday, July 4th, the last session of the ICBM-Colloquium SoSe2018 took place at the Institute of Chemistry and Marine Biology of the University of Oldenburg (Germany). During the ICBM colloquiums, research papers on development, carried out by national and international scientists and researchers, are
Rivages Pro Tech (RPT) is a science-based operational center from SUEZ Company located in Bidart (France). RPT is specialized in developing innovative tools using operational oceanography and monitoring of the water environments. Aiming to detect, monitor and predict possible destinations and dispersal pathways of floating
On May 18-21, the first edition of the International Maritime Festival of Pasaia was held. This event, which aims to promote maritime culture, received the visit of 115,000 people. The program included land and water activities linked to maritime heritage, among which was the Life
Itsas Belarra french fishing vessel has fished 4000 kg of floating marine litter during 18-23 May 2018 from Bidart to Saint Jean de Luz. It has been the first floating litter fishing of the year and 35 big pack full of litter have been deployed
90 small wooden boats will be launched along the Cantabrian Sea during the May anchovy campaign to study the possible trajectories of marine litter in the Bay of Biscay. We encourage you to go to the beaches and find them! On the other hand, with
On December 2017, an article written by partners of the Life LEMA project inside AZTI about the use of a radar for the study of surface coastal transport was published in Remote Sensing of Environment. The document entitled “Eddy-induced cross-shelf export of high Chl-a coastal
The European Union hosted the fourth high-level conference “Our Ocean” in Malta on October 5th and 6th, 2017. Since 2014, the «Our Ocean» conferences aim to inspire joint solutions and ambitious commitments for safe, protected, clean and sustainably managed oceans. “Our ocean, an ocean for