At the beginning of April, LifeLEMA project took part in the MARLICE forum, the 1st International forum on Marine Litter and Circular Economy. We went to Seville to meet marine litter experts working on the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts. Our aim was to discover newest
Spring is here, so it is time for the 2nd OSPAR campaign of 2019!! During the month of April we have been in 3 different beaches to continue our monitoring of marinelitter washed up on beaches. We have been in Mutriku, Zumaia and San Sebastian
The EGU General Assembly is the largest geoscience meeting in Europe with thousands of scientists and many topics discussed such as plastic pollution or natural disasters. The event will take place in the Austria Center Vienna in Vienna, Austria, will start on the 6th of
To face the global challenge of marine litter, as it is the purpose of this project, we need data on where this marine litter is and where does it come from. For this purpose we have different kind of approximations like the recollection of ML
We have finished the winter OSPAR campaigns, where together with volunteers we carry out marine litter monitoring on beaches of Gipuzkoa. This winter survey has not been easy due to the bad weather conditions on the Bay of Biscay, but we have really committed volunteers
The Life LEMA Newsletter #3 is already available! We have included an update on the recent actions carried out in the project: (i) we present the stage of demonstration of the project, (ii) information on the tools developed for the detection and prediction of the
Autumn began with the II Experts Workshop of Life LEMA on October 4th and since then we have been involved in lots of marine litter events and campaigns. In addition, our explanatory videos about the different parts of the project were finally released, and we have been
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
