We are happy to announce that SeaPaCS project, together with Save the Waves App, has been part of the webinar series on Coastal Resilience hosted by the Decade Collaborative Centre for Coastal Resilience - DCC-CR - (based within the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Bologna). The webinar has been held on... Continue Reading →

The team of the European Project SeaPaCS – Participatory Citizen Science against Marine Pollution, in particular its coordinator Chiara Certomà (DIGGEO@ESOMAS Lab., University of Turin) and Federico Fornaro (director of Raw-News media agency), presented the work of the SeaPaCS project with the screening of the video "In Search of Plastic", shot and edited by Federico... Continue Reading →

The European Project SeaPaCS – Participatory Citizen Science against Marine Pollution, in collaboration with PreciousPlasticTorino, invites students and teachers from Anzio to the PRECIOUS PLASTIC Laboratory. SeaPaCS proposes an interactive laboratory for schools in collaboration with the PreciousPlasticTorino fab-lab, a node of the Open Source Precious Plastic community.  During the workshop, students will be introduced... Continue Reading →

Within the framework of the European project SeaPaCS, the first prototype of the LADI trawl sampler (Low-tech Aquatic Debris Instrument) was built according to the guidelines of the CLEAR Project (https://civiclaboratory.nl/2016/06/29/ladi-trawl/) and consequently adapted according to the materials and their availability in Italy. LADI is an open-source DIY microplastics sampling net that, obviously, does not... Continue Reading →

The European project SeaPaCS – Participatory Citizen Science against Marine Pollution – has been included among the projects of the bidding committee for the candidacy of the city of Rome to Expo 2030.  The RUS (Network of Universities for Sustainable Development), to which the University of Turin belongs, supports the bidding committee for the candidacy... Continue Reading →

Within the European project SeaPaCS – Participatory Citizen Science against Marine Pollution, the research team is dealing with and implementing the two main research deliverables which include: 1.The definition of a scientific protocol for a do-it-yourself microplastics sampling tool by citizens through simple gears such as the baby legs or the LADI trawl (a prototype of which is under construction... Continue Reading →

The international channel of the Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera is documenting in Italy the historical increase in temperatures, not only atmospheric, but also marine. Yesterday, Sunday 23 July, the television report on marine pollution was broadcast in Anzio, in collaboration with the European project SeaPaCS – Cittadin*-Scienziat* against Plastic at Sea, with the Italian Naval League... Continue Reading →

As part of the European project SeaPaCS, on Thursday 20 July 2023, a crew from Al-Jazeera International produced a news report that will soon be broadcast (details to follow as soon as they will become available); the troupe, led by Hoda Abdel-Hamid and in collaboration with the communication agency Raw-News, went out to sea for... Continue Reading →

Sampling microplastics on a sailing vessel on the days of Friday, 14th of July and Saturday, 15th of July 2023, within the european project SeaPaCS – Citizen Scientists against Marine Pollution Volunteer Citizen Scientists, SeaPaCS researchers (from the University of Turin, ESOMAS Dept., Italian Naval League and GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany)... Continue Reading →

Italian text below - testo italiano più sotto photos C.Certomà- foto C.Certomà On the 12th of July, researchers of the european project SeaPaCS – Citizen Scientists against Marine Pollution (from the University of Turin, ESOMAS Dept., Italian Naval League and GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany) and the film-maker crew of the independent... Continue Reading →

Italian text below - testo in italiano più sotto At the Anzio (Rome) headquarters of the Italian Naval League (Lega Navale Italiana - LNI), the SeaPaCS project officially started with the first "Scientific Aperitive - Fist Collaboratorium". In the same venue, also, the photographic exhibition "Anzio in fondo al mare" (Anzio at the bottom of... Continue Reading →

First fantastic SeaPaCS video presentation of our search of plastic in the sea and documentation of the plastisphere. Realised by Raw-News agency and supported by EU IMPETUS project and the engagement activities funds by the DIGGEO@ESOMAS, Department ESOMAS – University of Turin .

Together with Samantha Cenere I co-chaired a session at the conference “Geography and Technology” [Geografia e Tecnologia] organised by the Società di Studi Geografici and co-edited a session of the conference papers Atti Giornate di Studi Interdisciplinari “Geografia e Tecnologia”, Società Studi Geografici.

I am happy to announce that a new article, titled "Beyond Income and Inequality: The Role of Socio-political Factors for Alleviating Energy Poverty in Europe", I co-wrote with Filippo Corsini, Marina Di Giacomo and Marco Guerrazzi is now out (pre-print) in Social Indicators Research.

On the occasion of the SeaPaCS Scientific Aperitive - First Collaboratorium on the 1st of June, 5.30 pm, at the Italian Naval League in Anzio (Riviera Zanardelli 38), the SeaPaCS team is happy to present two new impressive visual products: a new photographic exhibition titled “Anzio under the sea. Resistant Ecologies of the Mediterranean Sea”; and a 7 minutes video “In search of plastic. Sampling plastic at sea”.

On the 1st of June, 5.30 pm, we are kicking off the SeaPaCS project at the Italian Naval League in Anzio (Riviera Zanardelli 38). Citizens are all invited to join the SeaPaCS team for a thrilling and tasty initiative of presentation and networking.

We are starting today our EU H2020 sub-project "Participatory Citizen Science against Marine Pollution and Climate Change" funded by the IMPETUS project. SeaPaCS proposes a participatory citizen science project led by social and natural scientists that mobilises volunteers in data collection, elaboration and sharing on the biological consequences of marine plastic pollution (via in-situ samples collection for plastisphere DNA analysis, underwater video documentation of new ecological niches, plankton evaluation), and in drafting a plan for sustainability-oriented practices based on interviews with fishermen and sailors, in the coastal city of Anzio - Rome (Italy) on the  Mediterranean Sea.

Session chairing and presentation, with Federico Fornaro, on "Toward socio-cultural territorialization of the Open Sea. Insight from Cultural and Social Geography and Oceanic Sailing", and presentation of theoretical-visual contribution on “Staying with the problem in the Open Sea. On the plastisphere as hybrid ecological formation of the Chthlucene” (with comments of the shots of the photo exhnition "Explorations in the Plastisphere").