The RO focuses on the monitoring of the stranded and floating marco-litter pollution in the World Heritage Site of the Venice lagoon. The data also consider the covid-19 lockdown period.
Marine Litter Pollution Monitoring in the WHS of Venice and its lagoon
Davide Poletto, paolo franceschetti, Manuel Scarpa, Teresa Cecchi, Federica Foglini, and Giorgio Castellan. "Marine Litter Pollution Monitoring in the WHS of Venice and its lagoon." ROHub. Nov 11 ,2022. https://w3id.org/ro-id/b3dd84e2-9a82-4364-a030-7b8a4269744d.
Stranded litter monitoring campaign in Venice
ROs-Marine Macro litter pollution monitoring in Venice 04_2021-10_2022
The UNESCO World Heritage site “Venice and its Lagoon”, is one of the top tourist destinations in the world. Since there is a dearth in the literature regarding microplastic leachable compounds and overtourism-related pollutants, the project studied the Head Space-Solid Phase Micro Extraction-Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC–MS) molecular fingerprint of volatile lagoon water pollutants, to gain insight into the extent of this phenomenon in August 2019. The chromatographic analyses enabled the identification of 40 analytes related to the presence of polymers in seawater, water traffic, and tourists habits. In Italy, on the 10th March 2020, the lockdown restrictions were enforced to control the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 infection; the ordinary urban water traffic around Venice came to a halt, and the ever-growing presence of tourists suddenly ceased. This situation provided a unique opportunity to analyze the environmental effects of restrictions on VOCs load in the Lagoon. 17 contaminants became not detectable after the lockdown period. The statistical analysis indicated that the amounts of many other contaminants significantly dropped. The presence of 9 analytes was not statistically influenced by the lockdown restrictions, probably because of their stronger persistence or continuous input in the environment from diverse sources. Results signify a sharp and encouraging pollution decrease at the molecular level, concomitant with the anthropogenic stress release.
Analysis of volatile organic compounds in Venice lagoon water reveals COVID-19 lockdown impact on microplastics and mass tourism-related pollutants
The main interest is upon marine litter pollution and in particular ranging from marco to mirco and nano size. In encompasses data from citizen science monitoring and sampling activities in cooperation with research-educational institute and centers.
The data also consider the covid-19 lockdown period.
Arts, culture and entertainment/Culture/Language
The RO focuses on the monitoring of the stranded and floating marco-litter pollution in the World Heritage Site of the Venice lagoon.
Arts, culture and entertainment/Culture/Monument and heritage site
Marine Litter Pollution Monitoring in the WHS of Venice and its lagoon.
Marine Litter itinerary Legambiente 2016
Marine litter data collected by Legambiente in the lagoon of Venice - year 2016
Marine litter data collected by Venice Lagoon Plastic Free in the lagoon of Venice - year 2020
This file collects the overall VLPF monitoring campaign of stranded plastics litter in the beach-islands of Venice within the 2021-2022 timeline
Beach litter monitoring campaign 2021-22
2020 floating Marine Littere campaign in the historical city center of Venice