HIGHLIGHTS

CESAM celebrates the Sustainable Gastronomy Day highlighting two projects

Research on the sustainability of marine endogenous resources is a topic that CESAM (Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies) often addresses. On the Sustainable Gastronomy Day, CESAM highlights two projects that contribute to food safety and add value to resources highly appreciated and consumed worldwide: seafood. The production of bivalve molluscs in aquaculture is a sustainable activity with very low environmental impacts, once bivalves feed on the resources naturally available in the water, as they are filters. Nevertheless, the quality of these animals may degrade until it gets to the consumer, often because packaging and packing methods are not suitable. The project MolBiPack aims...

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REMINDERS

  • Webinar on the results of the European Project ClairCity will have the participation of a CESAM's researcher - 18 June

    Within the European project ClairCity - The Role of Citizens in Reducing Air Pollution in Cities, project H2020, three webinars are being prepared to disseminate the results. The events will take place between June 11th and 25th. Program: June 11th, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Mainland Portugal time); 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM (Central European Summer Time, CEST) Webinar 1: Engaging Citizens on air quality and climate change, June 18th, 1:00 PM - 2:10 PM (Mainland Portugal time); 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM (CEST) Webinar 2: Citizens’ behaviour in emissions, air quality and health modelling, June 25th, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (Mainland Portugal time); 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (CEST) Webinar 3: Citizens at the centre of air pollution and carbon reductions – lessons for policy. Vera Rodrigues (CESAM/DAO) takes part in webinar 2. Vera Rodigues is dedicated to the modelling of atmospheric processes in urban areas, namely the study of the interactions between the urban microclimate and the dispersion of atmospheric pollutants and in mitigation measures capable of reducing the population's exposure levels to atmospheric pollution.

  • CESAM is organizing a webinar on Online Science Communication - 22 June

    CESAM is organizing a webinar on Online Science Communication, that will take place on 22 June, 3 pm (ZOOM). The target audience of this event are PhD students that are going to present their project or thesis online. Nevertheless, all the interested members can attend to this event! We will present important tips on how to communicate online in a general perspective. For you to receive the link to the webinar, please register here until 18 June.

NEWS

  • A multidisciplinary team of CESAM integrates a Mobilizing project in the area of Plastics and Circular Economy

    A team of researchers of CESAM (Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies) including Bruno Nunes, Miguel Oliveira, and Teresa Rocha-Santos, with different expertise (Ecotoxicology, Biology, Biochemistry and Chemistry), will integrate the consortium of a Mobilizing project boosted by APIP – Associação Portuguesa da Indústria dos Plásticos. This project aims a more sustainable and circular vision of the Industry and Society. The consortium will be coordinated by Vizelpas Flexible Films, S.A, and include several companies of the plastics sector, Institutes, and Research Units. The project “BETTER PLASTIC - Plastics in a Circular Economy” will address the main innovation and research needs to accomplish the demands of the European Union Plastics Strategy. It will apply a threefold approach, using circularity as a basis: i) Circularity for the Design, ii) Circularity for Recycling, and iii) Circularity for Alternative Raw Materials. The team of CESAM will be responsible for the evaluation of the human and environmental toxicity of the studied materials.

  • CESAM celebrates the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought highlighting the project LIFE No_Waste

    In the South of Portugal there are areas highly vulnerable to soil erosion, drought, and desertification. In the specific case of the mining areas in the Iberian Pyrite Belt, this is aggravated by soil pollution resulting from the past mining activity and acid drainage, with losses of soil functionality between 50 and 100%. The LIFE No_Waste project aims to prepare new soil additives based on ash from the combustion of residual forest biomass and organic waste (biological sludge and / or organic compost) and to demonstrate their effectiveness in recovering the functionality of degraded soil in Portugal, in a context of circular economy. These new materials will allow to recover the chemical and ecological quality and promote the growth of vegetation in soils severely affected by extreme pollution with heavy metals, salinity and low pH. Since May 2018, a LIFE No_Waste pilot project for in situ application of the new additives is ongoing at the São Domingos Mine (Mértola). This work is coordinated by CESAM – Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies and is being developed by a highly multidisciplinary team with experience in the areas of waste management, environmental engineering, geochemistry, environmental chemistry, biochemistry, botany, ecology, and ecotoxicology. The pilot project will allow the optimization of operational conditions, providing technical guidelines for the subsequent application of these materials in other degraded areas of Southwest Europe. The team of the project

  • Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy for the control of COVID-19

    In an article of opinion published in the journal Antibiotics, the researcher of CESAM – Centre of Environmental and Marine Studies, Adelaide Almeida (DBio), and Amparo Faustino (DQ) and Graça Neves (DQ) from LAQV-REQUIMTE, argued that the “Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT), using well known, safe and cost-effective photosensitizers, such as phenothiazines or porphyrins, might help to mitigate the COVID-19 either to prevent infections or to develop photoactive fabrics to disinfect surfaces, air and wastewater, under artificial light and/or natural sunlight.”. [IR1] The complete news can be read here and the original article is available here.  

  • IBERSENSOR 2021, organized by CESAM members, postponed to September 2021

    The 12th Ibero-American Congress on Sensors, IBERSENSOR2021, originally planned for September 2020 in Aveiro, Portugal, has been postponed to September 2021. + info: http://ibersensor2021.events.chemistry.pt/

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