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MONITOOL project main results 2017-2023
MONITOOL project meets schools by UNICA
Our MONITOOL partners Jean-Louis Gonzalez (IFREMER) and Natalia Montero (AZTI), guest editors of a Special Issue of the Water journal
MONITOOL project, present at the International Symposium on Marine Sciences 2022
MONITOOL project participation in the Summer Internships Program 2022 of the IST (Lisbon)
DCU Sampling Campaign (2022) in the Irish Coastal Region
MONITOOL project results obtained in the Canarian region are now available by the IDECanarias viewer of GRAFCAN
Passive samplers (PS) for the assessment of dredging activity impacts
MONITOOL Project Final Conference (2021)
Interview with Professor Hao Zhang, Lancaster University, UK, and member of the MONITOOL scientific advisory board
Designing and development of an additional experiment performed by IFREMER at the laboratory
AZTI presents MONITOOL results at different scientific events during 2020
Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias (ITC) carried out a wastewater sampling campaign following the MONITOOL standardized methods
DCU Masters student, Martin Nolan, submits his MSc Thesis based on MONITOOL acquired knowledge
Evaluation of the impact of biofouling on deployments of DGT
COVID-19 impact on MONITOOL project implementation
MONITOOL Partners take part in the annual ICES expert’s meetings
Technical conference on passive samplers and MONITOOL project takes place in the Basque Country
Interview with Isabelle Amouroux, leader of MONITOOL Work Package 6 (EQS Adaptation and Chemical Status Assessment)
MONITOOL partners share and assess the results in Nantes and proceed with the last steps of the project
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UNICA contributes to MONITOOL project from outside Atlantic Region

UNICA contributes to MONITOOL project from outside Atlantic Region

The Università degli Studi di Cagliari (UNICA; Italy) is participating in the MONITOOL project as a Partner from outside the Atlantic Region, which operates in the Mediterranean. The main tasks of this institution research group are:

- to collaborate in the development of sampling and sample handling protocols

- to perform two sampling campaigns, in wet and dry seasons

- to participate in an intercalibration exercise

- to extend the results of the MONITOOL project beyond the Atlantic Region

Within the framework of MONITOOL, UNICA has selected four representative sampling stations in the harbour of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy). UNICA has already carried out the first sampling campaign in March and, now, is preparing for the one in September.

In March, they deployed DGT passive samplers at the 4 stations located in the harbour, for 5 days, collecting simultaneously spot water samples. DGTs and water samples were sent, following the protocols developed in the project, to the Partners in charge of the measurement of DGT-labile (IFREMER, France), dissolved (CEFAS, UK; IPMA, Portugal) and labile metal (IST, Portugal) concentrations.

One of the outputs of MONITOOL is to promote the future application of the approach used in this project to other emerging priority pollutants. Therefore, UNICA complements MONITOOL project with the high-frequency monitoring of several stations in the harbour of Cagliari. Accordingly, this Italian MONITOOL partner is concurrently deploying DGTs and other two types of passive samplers to measure a wide range of organic contaminants (i.e. pharmaceuticals, personal care products, pesticides, PAHs, PCBs).

The dissemination of the results will be ensured by the attendance to conferences, meetings with groups interested in the contamination of aquatic systems (e.g. stakeholders, universities, research centers, economic and social agents), participation in specific working groups and publication of scientific papers.