Environmental Monitoring Teams

The current 2024 research portfolio under the environmental programme looks as follows:

• ECO 54: Developing a tiered modeling framework in support of risk assessment of chemical substances associated with mobility concerns
  Principal investigator: Li Li, NSHE University of Nevada, US
• ECO 55: Assessing the Impact of Sample Collection on Microbial Population and Validity Criteria
  in the OECD 309 Surface Water Mineralisation Test
  Principal investigator: Odd Gunnar Brakstad, SINTEF Ocean AS, NO
• ECO56: UTOPIA:  Development of a mUltimedia uniT world OPen-source model for mIcroplAstic
  Principal investigator: Matthew MacLeod, Stockhom University, SE
• ECO57: μPLANET – microPlastic Long-range transport Assessment aNd Estimation Tools
  Principal investigator: Antonia Praetorius, University of Amsterdam, NL
• ECO58: Comprehensive additive release and bioaccessibility model for risk assessment of micro-
  and nano-plastics in the environment 
  Principal investigator: P. Lee Ferguson, Duke University, US
• ECO59: FRAGMENT-MNP: Developing a mechanistic model of Micro and NanoPlastic
  FRAGMentation in the ENvironmenT
  Principal investigator: Claus Svendsen, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), UK 
• ECO60: EMIFACT-MNP:EMIssionFACTorsfor Micro andNanoPlastics
  Principal investigator: Sam Harrison, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), UK 
• ECO61: HERA-MP – Establishment of a Holistic Environmental Risk Assessment for MicroPlastics in the terrestrial environment using the study of environmentally relevant particles
  Principal investigator: Karsten Schlich, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (IME), DE
  For more information on the LRI, visit their website http://www.cefic-lri.org.