Abstract The Mediterranean Sea has been described as one of the most affected areas by
marine litter in the world. Although effects on organisms from marine plastic litter ingestion …

Marine environmental monitoring is undertaken to provide evidence that environmental
management targets are being met. Moreover, monitoring also provides context to marine …

Many maritime countries in Europe have implemented marine environmental monitoring
programmes which include the measurement of chemical contaminants and related …

In order to mitigate the risk of excessive heavy metal intake, a study was conducted to
assess the levels of arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), and lead (Pb) …

Oil spills of varying magnitude occur every year, each presenting a unique challenge to the
local ecosystem. The complex, changeable nature of oil makes standardised risk …

Multidisciplinary investigations based on integration of chemical and biological
measurements, represent an added value to monitoring and management protocols, and …

Maritime activities in the subarctic and Arctic Ocean are predicted to substantially increase in
the future due to climate change and declining sea ice cover. Inevitably, the consequences …

Paracentrotus lividus gonads are gastronomic delicacies widely appreciated in Europe. Two
commercially exploited populations of sea urchins were characterized, for the first time, in …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are environmental contaminants that pose
significant risk to health of fish. The International Workshop on Integrated Assessment of …

We present a new data-driven model to reconstruct nonlinear flow from spatially sparse
observations. The proposed model is a version of a Conditional Variational Auto-Encoder …