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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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Database Management and correlation studies. First promising results.

Database Management and correlation studies. First promising results.

The general objective of the Work Package 4 is to develop a database that allows the compilation and interchange of all information generated during the study. This includes the simultaneously determination of metals in seawater by ‘classical’ procedures (i.e., by spot sampling) and by Diffusive Gradient in Thin films (DGTs). This database is focused on transitional and coastal water locations from the whole Atlantic Region and some areas of the Mediterranean.

For this database two main sources of data are being taken into account:

(i) results from research done previous to Monitool project (published and unpublished data) 

(ii) results from Monitool project.

Regarding with the first (i), it has been concluded that there are very few references that include “raw” data of both methodologies (i.e., spot sampling and DGTs) that can be useful for building a database. In relation to the results obtained in the framework of the MONITOOL project, most of the winter campaign data (carried out in winter 2018) are currently included, covering both, transitional and coastal zones.

The Work Package 4 also includes the statistical analyses that allow determining the relationships between both methodologies and the influence of the environmental characteristics in these relationships. This will be done when the database is completed with the results of the summer campaign (carried out in summer 2018). However, preliminary exploratory analyses have been conducted with winter season data and promising relationships have been found between the two methods in some analysed metals (Cd, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn). This would not be possible without the close collaboration of all Partners to obtain information from the different geographical areas.

 

Preliminary relationships between spot and DGT sampling 

 Preliminary relationships between metals by spot and DGT water sampling