Final Program

Thursday 12th December 2024

9.30 h – Registration. 

10.00 h – Opening session. 

10.15 hPlenary 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 hMadeira’s beach litter monitoring program. 

Pedro Sepúlveda. Regional Directorate of Environment and Sea of Madeira, Portugal.

11.50 hMicroplastics in the ocean: Emerging perspectives in their observation and analysis.

Francisco Machín. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

12.10 hMicroplastics 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 hTracking 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 hIncreasing the understanding of ocean. 

Scott Waters. Pisces VI Submarine SL, Spain.

13.10 hExtraction 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 hImpacts 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 hPoster Session.

16.00 hPlenary 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.