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A collection of 31 posts

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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

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New publication: Characterization Factors for plastic debris entanglement

We are excited to announce the publication of our latest research, "Disentangling marine plastic impacts in Life Cycle Assessment: Spatially explicit Characterization Factors for ecosystem quality" in Science of the Total Environment. While many studies have addressed and reported on different impacts of plastic pollution, the Life Cycle

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Publication: Effect factors for marine invasion impacts on biodiversity

Biological invasions are considered one of the five greatest drivers to biodiversity loss. In our new article, we assess a relative impact, globally and regionally. As a result we can map out sort of a "priority map".

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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

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Monitoring Plastic Pollution in Frøya's Archipelago with AI

In the peaceful waters of Frøya's Archipelago, located off the coast of Norway, a silent crisis unfolds: plastic is polluting hundreds of small islands. This newly initiated project in the archipelago seeks to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor and combat the plastic pollution washing up on its

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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

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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

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"Plastic day" / "Plastdagen" in Trondheim

Guest author: Gabrielle Häberli Time: 12th of October 2023 Location: Dokkhuset, Trondheim. Plastics – incredibly useful Plastic is an umbrella term describing a wide range of materials often perceived as "non-natural". They date back more than 100 years although their production only really "took flight" as an

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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

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The ISIE2023 conference in Leiden

People with interests in the field of Industrial Ecology from around the world gathered in the city of Leiden (Netherlands) from the 2nd to the 5th of July. They met for the conference set up by the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE). The overall theme was "transitions in

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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

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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

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Plastics: some history, benefits and challenges

Polymers have transformed our lives. We have been benefiting from them since approximately 1600 BC when natural rubber was first discovered[1]. A polymer is a material that consists of many repeated smaller subunits known as monomers. The way these monomers are arranged results in the formation of different kinds

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COP15 to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity: Quick history and relation to ATLANTIS

Global biodiversity has declined rapidly in the past decades, the WWF’s Living Planet Report of 2022 stated that wildlife populations declined on average 69% since 1970. In light of this issue, the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) was

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CONSENCE on the move!

In 2022, the CONSENCE project was on the move. Literally! As the global coronavirus pandemic eased (-ish), came the first opportunity to attend conferences and share some of our first results! The first stop was the 32nd annual European meeting of SETAC (the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) [1]

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Research stay with the Center for Marine Debris Research

During the fall semester of 2022, Marthe Høiberg got the opportunity to do a research stay with the Center for Marine Debris Research (CMDR) on Oahu, Hawai'i. The research center is part of Hawai'i Pacific University (HPU) and they conduct interdisciplinary research on plastic pollution in

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ATLANTIS at the EcoBalance 2022

EcoBalance is a conference held in Japan every second year since 1994, it has a strong focus on LCA and its application in industries. This year, the 15th EcoBalance, was hosted in Fukuoka, and themed ´Shifting Paradigms with Life Cycle Thinking´. Two members from the ATLANTIS project, me (Fei Song)

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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

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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

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Marine plastic pollution in Trondheims neighbourhood

When thinking about marine plastic litter, which has become one of the most pressing environmental issues, many people may think first about piles of waste in Africa or Asia. However, the pollution can be closer than you think. As the crow flies it is less than 100 km from Trondheim

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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

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ATLANTIS at the Copenhagen SETAC conference

Several members of the ATLANTIS project attended the SETAC Europe 32nd annual meeting in Copenhagen this year. We presented our recent progress in the development of characterisation factors for life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) and the MarINvaders toolkit and database, meanwhile we were inspired by other researchers and met associates

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New publication: Global distribution of potential impact hotspots for marine plastic debris entanglement

An important component of the ATLANTIS project is the development of global models for impacts of plastic debris on marine ecosystems, in accordance with the life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) framework. As a means towards achieving this goal, we have developed an indicator of potential macroplastic entanglement impact levels, which

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PhD candidate modelling impacts of marine invasive species

"My goal is to distinguish introduction pathways of invasive species in marine environments and quantify the impacts of invasive species on marine ecosystems"

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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