报告题目：Dynamics of floating marine debris in the northern Iberian waters: a model approach

报告人：Diego Pereiro

报告时间：2018年6月28日10:00

报告地点：海洋与大气学院219

报告内容：

Floating marine debris is distributed worldwide through the oceans and poses a serious threat to marine ecosystems. Field data and model results demonstrate high concentrations of floating debris in the Bay of Biscay. In this work, the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS), in conjunction with a particle-tracking model, has been used to study the distribution of floating debris in the northern Iberian waters.

Longer residence times were observed in the south-eastern Bay of Biscay, where the concentration of floating debris would be, on average, 2.1 times higher than in the north-western Iberian coastal waters, and 3.6 times higher when considering only the winter months. The analysis also suggests the existence of a seasonal influx of floating debris into the south-eastern Bay of Biscay, which would be greater during the winter. Both results - long residence time and influx of floating debris - support the hypothesis that the Bay of Biscay can be regarded as an accumulation zone of floating debris.

主讲人简介：

Academic education:

2009 - 2013      UNIVERSITY DEGREE IN MARINE SCIENCES, University of Vigo

2013 - 2014          MASTER’S DEGREE IN OCEANOGRAPHY, University of Vigo

Participation in congresses:

2014      IV International Symposium of Marine Sciences, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

“Numerical modeling of floating plastic pollutants on the Galician region”

Diego Pereiro Rodríguez, Carlos Souto Torres, Jesús Gago Piñeiro     

2016       V International Symposium of Marine Sciences, Alicante.

“Modeling the drift of floating marine litter in the Bay of Biscay: assessment of coastal pollution and litter accumulation”

Diego Pereiro Rodríguez, Carlos Souto Torres, Jesús Gago Piñeiro     

Publications:

2018   Pereiro, D., Souto, C., Gago, J. Calibration of a marine floating litter transport model. J. Oper. Oceanogr. https://doi.org/10.1080/1755876X.2018.1470892