Environment Laboratories
Checking Ocean Health: Nutrient Analysis at the Institut de Ciències del Mar
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26 Jun 2024
The Chemistry Laboratory of the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) offers a Nutrient Analysis Service to institutions and companies, where they analyse the main nutrients in water. Specifically, they measure the concentration of inorganic nutrients (nitrate, nitrite, ammonium, phosphate, and silicate), total nitrogen and phosphorus, and total and dissolved organic carbon.
Organic pollutants: almost everything is now detected
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24 Oct 2022
R+D CSIC 30 years
Nowadays, environmental monitoring involves the analysis of any sample (water, food, soil...) and has moved from analysing a limited number of pollutants to "non-target" analysis, in which almost everything in the sample is detected without restrictions. And at previously impossible levels: contaminants can now be detected at concentrations of less than 1 part per billion.
A method to detect from a single sample nanoplastics and their composition in water
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03 Nov 2020
Scientists at the IDAEA-CSIC have developed the first method that allows double screening to detect the presence of six polymers and 29 additives from a single sample. This cutting-edge methodology has been validated in the Ebro Delta, where they have analysed water samples from the river and from the sea. They are now working to apply this method to other environmental and human samples.
CSIC's Marine Technology Unit incorporates a new robot AUV
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27 Feb 2021
NEMO is an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that can reach 500 meters deep carrying various instruments for marine exploration. Its open architecture will allow carrying out tasks in different areas of marine science: marine resources, geological risks, underwater archaeology, conservation of marine habitats or monitoring natural reserves.
Aquatic plants contribute to clean waters, scientists confirm
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11 Dec 2017
Bioengineering techniques and plants contribute to clean waters, as scientific research developed in the Urban River Lab has demonstrated. The Urban River Lab (URL) focuses on improving management of highly modified rivers, whose waters come mainly from treatment plants.
