environmental monitoring

“I was on something like page 16 of Google search and found a radar survey done by a Mexican organisation for environmental monitoring,” explains Luke Auld-Thomas, a PhD student at Tulane university in the US.

Meanwhile, the Italian Coast Guard has been conducting environmental monitoring activities at the site of the sinking, to prevent possible hydrocarbon spills from the hull.

Raffaele Macauda, deputy commander of the Palermo coastguard, said the coastguard is conducting in-depth environmental monitoring.

"AMPLON has the potential to positively change the way molecular analysis and clinical diagnostics are performed," said Mohamed S. Draz, an assistant professor at the School of Medicine and the study's principal investigator, "from infectious-disease diagnostics to personalized medicine and environmental monitoring."

Detecting and identifying microplastics in water samples is essential for environmental monitoring but is challenging due in part to the structural similarity of microplastics with natural organic compounds derived from biofilms, algae, and decaying organic matter.