The researcher Damià Barceló will give a talk on the risks and remediation of emerging contaminants, antibiotic resistance genes and microplastics in surface waters and groundwaters of selected European rivers and future COVID-19-related challenges. Language: English
The researcher Damià Barceló, from the Water, Enfironmental and Food Chemistry (ENFOCHEM) group, will give a talk at the Trinity College (Cambridge University) on November 8th at 18h30.
His lecture, titled “Fate, risks and remediation of emerging contaminants, antibiotic resistance genes and microplastics in surface waters and groundwaters of selected European rivers and future COVID-19-related challenges”, will be divided in two parts. The first part of this presentation will show different examples on the risk of emerging contaminants , antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) nanomaterials and microplastics (MPs) in Mediterranean river catchments affected by water scarcity. The second part of this lecture will discuss as well the increasing use of plastic litter and pharmaceuticals under Covid-19 outbreak. In this sense the excessive use and consumption of single-use plastics has negatively impacted the aquatic environment and agroecosystems among other compartments.
