Atlantis-ERC Defense of first ATLANTIS PhD On Friday the 13th of September Marthe Alnes Høiberg defended her PhD thesis with the title “Towards inclusion of plastic pollution in Life Cycle Assessments: Impacts of entanglement from species to ecosystem quality level”. Marthe has written about the impacts of plastic entaglement within life cycle impact assessment and has
Atlantis-ERC ATLANTIS visits second graders Francesca Verones and Martin Dorber visited a second class in Trondheim to teach and inform about plastic and its environmental impacts. We talked about how plastics are made, how much is thrown away and what happens with the plastic that is not properly managed. The children were very engaged and
Atlantis-ERC New publication out Plastic waste can not only lead to physical impacts, like entanglement or ingestion, but it is suspected, that it can also lead to toxic impacts. In this publication, Naiara Casagrande, affiliated with the ATLANTIS project, has developed effect factors for additives that are used in plastic products. The results of
Atlantis-ERC New ATLANTIS publication out Our paper about the MarInvaders WebTool has finally been published in Ecosphere. We have built a tool to visualize the database that we compiled previously. We collected data for 966 aliens pecies for 225 marine ecoregions and also included over 1500 species that are threatened by invasive species. While the
Atlantis-ERC Experience from the research visit in Norway From May to August 2023, Naiara Casagrande was invited to join the Industrial Ecology Programme at NTNU as a visiting PhD student. Naiara is a Ph.D. student at NOVA University of Lisbon, in Portugal, and conducts research at the Marine Research and Environmental Risk Lab (MARlab), which is part
Atlantis-ERC Lead authorship for upcoming IPBES report Francesca Verones was selected as lead author for the upcoming IPBES report on Biodiversity and business. This report aims to provide an assessment of the impacts, as well as the dependence, that businesses and biodiversity have. The goal is to identify methods and indicators with which these impacts can be
Atlantis-ERC Group retreat and midterm evaluations of two ATLANTIS PhDs From 12-14 April 2023 the entire Industrial Ecology Programme went on a group retreat to Oppdal, approximately two hours away from Trondheim. Apart from team building and social activities, the aim was to hold the midterm evaluations of 8 PhD students of the Industrial Ecology Programme, among them Fei Song
Atlantis-ERC 82nd Swiss LCA discussion forum on addressing the issue of plastic pollution: status quo and the way forward The ATLANTIS team organized the 82nd Swiss LCA discussion forum
Atlantis-ERC Participation at the 7th International Marine Debris Conference (7IMDC) Naiara Casagrande, who is affiliated with ATLANTIS, attended the 7th International Marine Debris Conference (7IMDC) with a group of research from NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal. The conference took place from the 18th to the 23rd of September 2022 in Busan, Republic of Korea. This was the first to be
Atlantis-ERC Research visit in Hawaii Francesca Verones spent July and August 2022 on Oahu and Big Island, Hawaii for a research visit to continue working on the issues of how plastic pollution is affecting the marine ecosystem. She focused especially on how plastic and invasive species are perceived to impact important marine ecosystem services in
Atlantis-ERC First ATLANTIS workshop On 24 March 2021 the first, virtual, ATLANTIS workshop was held. The workshop had almost 30 attendees and a very diverse speaker list from around the world. After a general introduction into the project, life cycle assessment and the current framework for including plastic waste into life cycle impact assessment
Atlantis-ERC Announcement of the first ATLANTIS workshop We are excited to announce the first workshop for the ATLANTIS project on 24th March 6pm CET. The aim of this online workshop is to present the project and some preliminary results to an audience of interested persons, to inform stakeholders about the ongoing work, but also to get feedback
Atlantis-ERC Presentation in the Sano Sustainability Webinar Series Francesca has been invited to present the ATLANTIS project and the MariLCA initiative on 17 March 2021 , 11:15 GMT. This is a webinar series from the African Waste Academy, presenting each week a different speaker connected to the issue of plastic waste in the ocean. For more information see
Atlantis-ERC Two presentations from ATLANTIS team members In the beginning of November, Marthe had the opportunity to present her ongoing work with marine plastic debris entanglement through a seminar called Ocean talks. This series of seminars is hosted by the student organization NTNU Ocean Club at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. The theme
Atlantis-ERC Webinar on National Guidance for Plastic Pollution Hotspotting and Shaping Action On October 1 we attended a very interesting Webinar hosted by UN Environment and IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature). “National Guidance for Plastic Pollution Hotspotting and Shaping Action” is a project of the life cycle initiative hosted by UN Environment, UCN, together with EA – Shaping Environmental Action,
Atlantis-ERC LC-IMPACT: a new spatially differentiated life cycle impact assessment method LC-IMPACT was originally a project financed by the seventh framework program of the European Union. During the project many new models and approaches for assessing impacts on ecosystems and human health within a life cycle assessment framework were developed. However, an overarching combination of all these developments was lacking. This
Atlantis-ERC SETAC SciCon: a virtual conference The SETAC (Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) Europe Annual meeting was supposed to take place in Dublin this year. Due to the situation with the Coronavirus, the conference could of course not be held as planned. Instead of canceling the conference, the organizers decided to transform the conference into
