Dr Silvia Merlino from CNR-ISMAR participated in the GI-SIMP Joint Congress “Geology for a sustainable management of our Planet”, that took place in Bari (Italy) during 3-5 September 2024. She participated with two oral presentations. The first one was about the “Adopt-a-Dune project: use of virtual adoption and citizen science approach to increase knowledge and raise student awareness on coastal systems management” in the session “Geoscience at school”. The second presentation was on “Plastic accumulation on amarine protected area: the case study of the Giannutri Island in Tuscan Archipelago” in the session “The global challenge of plastic pollution: causes,impacts and solutions”. The online abstracts can be found here.