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Seafloor imaging and toxicity : assessment of risks caused by buried waste

Objective

SITAR overall objective is to enable the making of oceanographic instrumentation and systems to assess the risk posed by toxic dumpsites in which a relevant part of the waste containers is buried within the sediment. In particular, the project aims at: developing acoustic methods and instrumentation for imaging of water containers of small dimension buried in unconsolidated sediments; developing biological testing methods to determine the relative in-site bio accumulated toxicity at a contaminated site; integrating and making accessible the imaging data and the biotoxicological information to end-users and decision-makers. The techniques developed by the project will be tested firstly in controlled conditions, and then in operational conditions at a known site in the Baltic Sea, where toxic dumping occurred in the past-World War II years.

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CENTRO INTERUNIVERSITARIO DI SISTEMI INTEGRATI PER L'AMBIENTE MARINO
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Via Opera Pia 13
16145 GENOVA
Italy

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