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WG Anthropogenic impacts

The group is composed of researchers from various disciplines. They study the impacts and consequences of human activities on the marine environment, from marine pollution and the effects of climate change to responses at different levels of biological organisation.

Fields of research and expertise

Research:

- Marine pollution: study of marine pollution with different organic and inorganic pollutants, hydrocarbons (aliphatic and polycyclic aromatic), PCBs and chlorinated pesticides, organotin compounds and metals (determination of pollutant distribution, concentrations, sources and the impact on marine environment)
- Marine litter, plastics, microplastics: study of pollution of the sea by plastic materials and especially microplastics (determination of microplastics distribution, concentrations in seawater, marine sediments and organisms, determination of sources of plastic materials)
- the degradation and transformation of organic compounds in marine environment, especially the photochemical degradation
- photocatalysed degradation of organic pollutants in different aqueous media under artificial light and in field conditions
- anthropogenic impact (mariculture, marine transport and port activities, sewage release, hypoxia and anoxia) on meiofauna communities
- climate change impacts (ocean acidification, hypoxia, warming, marine heat wave) and biological vulnerability and risk assessment
- impact of climate change on marine calcifying organisms: study of the responses across various levels of biological organisation (genetic, subcellular, cellular, physiological and organismal) and community structure
- Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) strategies
- Study of environmental stress on physiology and connectivity of marine species (jellyfish, mussels)

Expertise:

- Sampling, sample preparation and analyses of organic compounds, including pollutants, by different chromatographic techniques
- Sampling, sample preparation and analyses of microplastics in seawater, sediments and organisms; determination of plastic material by infrared spectroscopy (ATR FTIR and µ-FTIR)
- Photochemical and photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants; determination of kinetics, influence of different matrices and analyses of formed photoproducts
- identification of harpacticoid copepods
- biomarker development for global change biology
- correlation, synthesis of multiple stressors on various levels of biological organization and across different trophic levels
- data and approach synthesis related to the modelling, physical-chemical observational and biological responses
- threshold science for ocean acidification assessment for regional and global assessments

Staff members

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Oliver Bajt, Scientific Counsellor, Head of WG Anthropogenic impacts

https://www.nib.si/mbp/en/cv/oliver-bajt

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Jena Jamšek, Young Researcher

http://www.nib.si/mbp/en/cv/jena-jamsek

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Tanja Kobal, Young Researcher

http://www.nib.si/mbp/en/cv/tanja-kobal

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Živa Muhič, Associate

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Assist. Prof. Dr. Andreja Ramšak

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Projects

Coastal Sea Research – ARRS Research Programme P1-0237

1.1.2020-31.12.2025

http://www.nib.si/eng/index.php/projects?view=project&id=166

Plastic Pirates - Go Europe; young Citizen Scientists with a mission to collect data and disseminate knowledge about plastic and microplastic pollution of rivers (V1-2040)

1.4.2021 - 30.6.2022

https://www.plastic-pirates.eu/en

Biomarkers of subcellular stress in the Northern Adriatic under global environmental change

1.11.2020 - 31.10.2023

http://www.nib.si/projektinib?view=project&id=354

Marine pollution with microplastics and organic pollutants - ARRS Research Programme P1-0237

Bilateral Project Slovenia-Serbia: Induction of oxidative stress by microplastic particles with adsorbed hydrophobic organic pollutants in edible mussels

01.01.2020 - 31.12.2022

Leader: dr. Oliver Bajt

http://www.nib.si/projektinib?view=project&id=339

ENVRI FAIR

1.1. 2019 - 31. 12. 2022

Leader at NIB: dr. Andreja Ramšak

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/824068

RI-SI-LifeWatch

29. 12. 2019 - 30. 9. 2021

Leader at NIB: dr. Andreja Ramšak

https://www.lifewatch.eu/slovenia

Application of DNA technology for the detection of adulteration in fishery products through the evaluation of socio-economic aspects (CRP Let's secure food for tomorrow, project V1-1808)

1. 11. 2018 - 31. 10. 2020 (extension to 31.03.2021)

Leaders: dr. Lovrenc Lipej, dr. Andreja Ramšak

https://www.nib.si/aktualno/novice/1265-uporaba-tehnologije-dna-za-ugotavljanje-poneverb-v-ribiskih-proizvodih-z-vrednotenjem-socio-ekonomskih-vidikov-crp-zagotovimo-si-hrano-za-jutri-st-projekta-v1-1808

FISH-AGRO TECH CBC Interreg Italia-Slovenia-European Regional Development Fund 01.07.2017 - 31. 12. 2019 (extension to 31.03.2021)

Leader at NIB: dr. Andreja Ramšak

http://www.nib.si/eng/index.php/novice/590-project-details-fish-agro-tech-cbc

AssemblePlus - Association of European Marine Biological Laboratories Expanded (H2020 Research and Innovation Action), duration 01. 10. 2017 do 30.09.2021 (extension to 30.09.2022)

Leader at NIB: dr. Andreja Ramšak

http://www.nib.si/eng/index.php/novice/593-nib-participates-in-the-assemble-plus-project

MARISTEM COST Action 16203 Stem cells of marine/aquatic invertebrates: from basic research to innovative applications

Leader at NIB: dr. Andreja Ramšak

02.10.2017 - 30.09. 2021 (extension to 31.03.2022)

http://www.nib.si/eng/index.php/novice/589-maristem-cost-action-16203

SEA-UNICORN COST Action 19107

Leader at NIB: dr. Andreja Ramšak

https://www.sea-unicorn.com/

MAF WORLD COST CA20102

Leader at NIB: dr. Andreja Ramšak

https://maf-world.eu/

Publications

ROSSI, Sergio, BRAMANTI, Lorenzo, HORTA, Paulo, ALLCOCK, A. Louise, CARREIRO-SILVA, Marina, COPPARI, Martina, VIANNEY, Denis, HADJIOANNOU, Louis, ISLA, Enrique, JIMENEZ, Carlos, JOHNSON, Mark, MOHN, Christian, OREJAS, Covadonga, RAMŠAK, Andreja, REIMER, James, RINKEVICH, Baruch, RIZZO, Lucia, SALOMIDI, Maria, SAMAAI, Toufiek, SCHUBERT, Nadine, SOARES, Marcelo, THURSTAN, Ruth H., VASSALLO, Paolo, ZIVERI, Patrizia, ZORRILLA-PUJANA, Juanita. Protecting global marine animal forests. Science. 27 May. 2022, vol. 376, iss. 6596, str. 929. ISSN 0036-8075. https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.abq7583, DOI: 10.1126/science.abq7583. [COBISS.SI-ID 113305347]

MAVRIČ, Alex, BOJNEC, Štefan, RAMŠAK, Andreja. Izzivi razvoja ribištva v Sloveniji. Koper: Založba Univerze na Primorskem, 2021. 131 str., graf. prikazi. Znanstvene monografije Fakultete za management. ISBN 978-961-293-114-8, ISBN 978-961-293-115-5. https://doi.org/10.26493/978-961-293-114-8, DOI: 10.26493/978-961-293-114-8. [COBISS.SI-ID 98414339]

RASPOR DALL'OLIO, Lucija, BERAN, Alfred, FLANDER-PUTRLE, Vesna, MALEJ, Alenka, RAMŠAK, Andreja. Diversity of dinoflagellate symbionts in scyphozoan hosts from shallow environments : the Mediterranean Sea and Cabo Frio (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Frontiers in marine science. May 2022, vol. 9, str. 1-13, ilustr. ISSN 2296-7745. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.867554, DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.867554. [COBISS.SI-ID 108221187],

ROMANO, Giovanna, ALMEIDA, Mariana, VARELA COELHO, Ana, CUTIGNANO, Adele, MOREIRA GONÇALVES, Luís, HANSEN, Espen, KHNYKIN, Denis, MASS, Tali, RAMŠAK, Andreja, ROCHA S., Miguel, SILVA, Tiago Henriques da, SUGNI, Michela, BALLARIN, Loriano, GENEVIERE, Anne-Marie. Biomaterials and bioactive natural products from marine invertebrates. Marine drugs. 2022, iss. 4, vol. 20, str. 1-45, ilustr. ISSN 1660-3397. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/20/4/219, DOI: 10.3390/md20040219. [COBISS.SI-ID 103233539]

ROSNER, Amalia, ARMENGAUD, Jean, BALLARIN, Loriano, BARNAY-VERDIER, Stéphanie, CIMA, Francesca, VARELA COELHO, Ana, DOMART-COULON, Isabelle, DROBNE, Damjana, GENEVIERE, Anne-Marie, JEMEC KOKALJ, Anita, KOTLARSKA, Ewa, RAMŠAK, Andreja, et al. Stem cells of aquatic invertebrates as an advanced tool for assessing ecotoxicological impacts. Science of the total environment. 17 Jan. 2021, vol. , [article] 144565, str. [1-117], ilustr. ISSN 0048-9697. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720380967?via%3Dihub#!, DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144565. [COBISS.SI-ID 48752387 ]

CAI, Wei-Jun, FEELY, Richard Alan, TESTA, Jeremy M., LI, Ming, EVANS, Wiley, ALIN, Simone R., XU, Yuan-Yuan, PELLETIER, Greg, AHMED, Anise, GREELEY, Dana J., NEWTON, Jan A., BEDNARŠEK, Nina. Natural and anthropogenic drivers of acidification in large estuaries. Annual review of marine science, ISSN 1941-0611, Jan. 2021, vol. 13, str. 23-55, ilustr. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-marine-010419-011004#_i61, doi: 10.1146/annurev-marine-010419-011004. [COBISS.SI-ID 49838339]

OBST, Matthias, EXTER, Katrina, ALLCOCK, A. Louise, ARVANITIDIS, Christos, AXBERG, Alizz, BUSTAMANTE, Maria, FORTIČ, Ana, MAVRIČ, Borut, RAMŠAK, Andreja, et al. A marine biodiversity observation network for genetic monitoring of hard-bottom communities (ARMS-MBON). Frontiers in marine science. Nov. 2020, vol. 7, str. 1-9, ilustr. ISSN 2296-7745. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.572680/full, DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.572680. [COBISS.SI-ID 40033027]

GREGO, Mateja, MALEJ, Alenka, DE TROCH, Marleen. The depleted carbon isotopic signature of nematodes and harpacticoids and their place in carbon processing in fish farm sediments. Frontiers in marine science, ISSN 2296-7745, Jul. 2020, vol. 7, article 572, str. 1-15, ilustr. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00572/full, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00572. [COBISS.SI-ID 24147971]

BEDNARŠEK, Nina, FEELY, Richard Alan, BECK, Marcus W., ALIN, Simone R., SIEDLECKI, Samantha A., CALOSI, Piero, NORTON, Emily L., SAENGER, Casey, ŠTRUS, Jasna, GREELEY, Dana, NEZLIN, Nikolay, ROETHLER, Miranda, SPICER, John I. Exoskeleton dissolution with mechanoreceptor damage in larval Dungeness crab related to severity of present-day ocean acidification vertical gradients. Science of the total environment, ISSN 0048-9697, 2020, vol. 716, str. 1-12, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136610. [COBISS.SI-ID 9403001]

BEDNARŠEK, Nina, FEELY, Richard Alan, HOWES, Ella, HUNT, Brian, KESSOURI, Faycal, LEÓN, Pablo, LISCHKA, Silke, MAAS, Amy E., MCLAUGHLIN, Karen, NEZLIN, Nikolay, SUTULA, Martha, WEISBERG, Stephen B. Systematic review and meta-analysis toward synthesis of thresholds of ocean acidification impacts on calcifying pteropods and interactions with warming. Frontiers in marine science, ISSN 2296-7745, 2019, vol. 6, art. no. 227, str. 1-16, ilustr. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00227, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00227. [COBISS.SI-ID 9395321]

PALATINUS, Andreja, KOVAČ VIRŠEK, Manca, ROBIČ, Uroš, GREGO, Mateja, BAJT, Oliver, ŠILJIĆ, Jasna, SUARIA, Giuseppe, LIUBARTSEVA, Svitlana, COPPINI, Giovanni, PETERLIN, Monika. Marine litter in the Croatian part of the middle Adriatic Sea : simultaneous assessment of floating and seabed macro and micro litter abundance and composition. Marine pollution bulletin, ISSN 0025-326X, 2019, vol. 139, str. 427-439, doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.12.038. [COBISS.SI-ID 4967247]

BAJT, Oliver, RAMŠAK, Andreja, MILUN, Vesna, ANDRAL, Bruno, ROMANELLI, Giulia, ALFONSO, Scarpato, MITRIĆ, Milena, KUPUSOVIĆ, Tarik, KLJAJIĆ, Zoran, ANGELIDIS, Michael, ÇULLAJ, Algi, GALGANI, François. Assessing chemical contamination in the coastal waters of the Adriatic Sea using active mussel biomonitoring with Mytilus galloprovincialis. Marine pollution bulletin, ISSN 0025-326X, 2019, vol. 141, str. 283-298, doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.06.056. [COBISS.SI-ID 5013071]

BALDRIGHI, Elisa, SEMPRUCCI, Federica, FRANZO, Annalisa, CVITKOVIĆ, Ivan, BOGNER, Danijela, DESPALATOVIĆ, Marija, BERTO, Daniela, FORMALEWICZ, Margherita Malgorzata, ALFONSO, Scarpato, FRAPICCINI, Emanuela, MARINI, Mauro, GREGO, Mateja. Meiofaunal communities in four Adriatic ports : baseline data for risk assessment in ballast water management. Marine pollution bulletin, ISSN 0025-326X, 2018, vol. , no. , 14 str., [in press], doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.06.056. [COBISS.SI-ID 4910415]

Collaborations

Inštitut za vode Republike Slovenije http://www.izvrs.si/

University of Ljubljana https://www.uni-lj.si

Institut Ruđer Bošković https://www.irb.hr/

University of Ghent (Marine Biology Research Group) https://www.ugent.be/en

University of Trieste https://www.units.it/en

NOAA https://www.noaa.gov/

OGS https://www.inogs.it/

University of Oregon https://www.uoregon.edu/

University of Washington https://www.washington.edu/

Puget Sound Restoration Fund https://restorationfund.org/

Instituto Milenio de Oceanografia https://es.imo-chile.cl/