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Exciting news from the Nautilos project! Our partner CEiiA recently embarked on a mission aboard the Portuguese Navy research vessel NRP D. Carlos I to test the CEiiA Lander, equipped with sensors developed under the project. The test was a resounding success, with...

The Nautilos project continues to push the boundaries of ocean observation technology! A new research publication, Flying Robots Teach Floating Robots: A Machine Learning Approach for Marine Habitat Mapping Based on Combined Datasets, presents an innovative...

  The NAUTILOS Final Conference will take place on May 19, 2025, bringing together experts, policymakers, and ocean stakeholders to reflect on the project's achievements and discuss the future of accessible and inclusive ocean science. Under the theme "Advancing...

Giuseppe Suaria from CNR-ISMAR participated on the 12th February 2025 in the international workshop: ”Approaches for Measuring and Identifying Microplastics”, where he presented some of the results obtained during the NAUTILOS project. This international workshop was...

Dr Bert van Bavel from NIVA started off an open-source initiative on the 27th of January 2025 to produce a low-cost version of the smartphone NIR scanner that was used during NAUTILOS activities in collaboration with 20 mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering...

Dr Giuseppe Suaria from CNR-ISMAR participated in the 1st Integrated Marine Debris Observing System (IMDOS) initiative which was held in Paris on January 8th 2025. IMDOS aims to support the development of a comprehensive global system to monitor marine debris,...

The online citizen science project Marine Creatures developed within Task 10.4 of the NAUTILOS project in the platform Zooniverse was presented during Session 2 “How to ensure engagement in your Citizen Science project” of the 6th International Marine Science...

Ms Vilde Kloster Snekkevik from NIVA demonstrated the NAUTILOS smartphone NIR scanner on the 22nd of November 2024 in Mumbai, India. The smartphone NIR scanner was used for identifying plastic polymers in debris floating through the Mithi River, with volunteers of...

Dr Silvia Merlino from ICNR-ISMAR participated in the event ‘The Future is in the Ocean: the hidden face of the planet’, that took place in the CNR Conference Hall in Rome at 12th November 2024. The CNR President Maria Chiara Carrozza and the Director of the CNR...

Dr Giuseppe Suaria from CNR-ISMAR participated as a lecturer in the 1st edition of the CRIMAC INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL: MultidisciPLinary Approach for the STudy of plastic litter pollution in MEDiterranean ecosystems: from impacts to potential solutions (PLASTMed)...