Thursday 12th December 2024
9.30 h – Registration.
10.00 h – Opening session.
10.15 h – Plenary lecture. Chair: Eugenio Fraile Nuez (IEO-CSIC).
Understanding plastic pollution in the Azores: Insights from a decade of research.
Christopher Kim Pham. University of Azores, Portugal.
11.00 h – Coffee Break
11.30 Main session. Chairs: Daura Vega Moreno (ULPGC) and Francisco Machín (ULPGC).
11.30 h – Madeira’s beach litter monitoring program.
Pedro Sepúlveda. Regional Directorate of Environment and Sea of Madeira, Portugal.
11.50 h – Microplastics in the ocean: Emerging perspectives in their observation and analysis.
Francisco Machín. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
12.10 h – Microplastics in the open ocean at different depths in the Canary region: Origin, fate, and composition.
Daura Vega Moreno. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
12.30 h – Tracking the pellets from the Toconao spill in the Atlantic Ocean through Lagrangian simulations.
Álvaro Cubas. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
12.50 h – Increasing the understanding of ocean.
Scott Waters. Pisces VI Submarine SL, Spain.
13.10 h – Extraction and determination of 4th European Watch List compounds adsorbed on microplastic by using enhanced UAE-UHPLC-MS/MS procedure.
Ludovit Schreiber. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
13.30 h – Impacts of Cigarette Butt Leachates on Palaemon elegans.
Anna Cunill Saez. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
14.00 h – Lunch Break.
15.00 h – Poster Session.
16.00 h – Plenary lecture. Chair: Javier Hernández Borges (ULL).
Advancing methods and tools to study, survey and monitor marine litter pollution.
João Monteiro. University of Madeira – MARE-Madeira, Portugal.
16:45 h – Closing session.