The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is a leading technical university in northern Europe.The institute DTU-Aqua conducts research and provides advice on fisheries stock assessment and management, aquaculture, and is EU Reference Lab for Fish and Shelfish Deseases. DTU-Aqua also delivers fundamental understanding of the marine environment and sustainable exploitation of living marine/fresh water resources (in support of MSFD GES and UN SDG14).
PROFILE
INVOLVEMENT IN CLAIM:
DTU-Aqua is a core partner mainly involved in macro litter transport simulation (WP1), demonstration of efficacy of litter cleaning devices and ferrybox data collection (WP3) and leading WP4 on assessing the influence of marine litter on ecosystem services.
INFRASTRUCTURE:
The institute has access to high performance computers, data storage facilities for hydrographic data sets, lab facilities to analyze biological samples with various techniques and optical and spectral equipment for microplastic characterization.
KEY SCIENTISTS INVOLVED:
Michael St. John
mstjo [at] aqua [dot] dtu [dot] dk
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Organisation: DTU Aqua
Position: Professor
Expertise: Ecosystem and plankton dynamics, machine learning
Involvement in CLAIM: WP4 leader
Asbjorn Christensen
asc [at] aqua [dot] dtu [dot] dk
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Organisation: DTU Aqua
Position: Senior scientist
Expertise: Physical-biological interaction, marine transport processes
Involvement in CLAIM: Developer of code for marine litter transport simulation in WP1
Torkel Gissel Nielsen
tgin [at] aqua [dot] dtu [dot] dk
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Organisation: DTU Aqua
Position: Research Technician
Expertise: Research in size composition, distribution and impact of microplastics in the marine environment
Involvement in CLAIM: Data collection and characterization of microplastic in the marine environment (WP1 and WP3)
Colin Stedmon
cost [at] aqua [dot] dtu [dot] dk
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Organisation: DTU Aqua
Position: Associate professor
Expertise: Marine pollution, microplastic in the marine enviromnment
Involvement in CLAIM: data collection and characterization of microplastic in the marine environment (WP1 and WP3)
Ivo Grigorov
ivgr [at] aqua [dot] dtu [dot] dk
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Organisation: DTU Aqua
Position: Research Coordinator
Expertise: Transfer of research outputs along the lab-2-society spectrum based on principles of Open Science (H2020 FOSTER+), Knowledge Transfer (H2020 COLUMBUS), Ocean Literacy (H2020 SeaCHANGE)
Involvement in CLAIM: Dissimination & Outreach (WP6)