Center for Coastal & Marine Studies
Where did this refuse come from? Marine anthropogenic litter on a remote island of the Colombian Caribbean sea
This is one of the recent studies by CCMS AC Member Prof. Nelson Rangel-Buitrago, in co-authorship with Adriana Gracia, Anubis VelezMendoza, Alexander Carvajal-Florián, Lilibeth Mojica-Martinez Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia; and William J. Neal Department of Geology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan.
Originally published in Elsevier – Marine Pollution Bulletin, December 2019, 110611. Text and image courtesy of © Nelson Rangel-Buitrago et al.
BSEC - ICBSS WEBINAR, 19 May 2020: Challenging Post Covid-19 Era
CCMS Director Dr Margarita Stancheva took participation at BSEC - ICBSS WEBINAR, conducted on 19 May, 2020 and organized by the International Center for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS), together with Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) in an online discussion about regional cooperation and coordination during the Covid-19 outbreak and the role of international organizations in the challenging post - pandemic era, focusing on the Black Sea Region.
INTEGRATING ECOSYSTEM-BASED APPROACH IN MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING: 6 MAY 2020 - MSPglobal online seminar
CCMS experts participated at the sixth MSPglobal online seminar – the first in English – organised on 6 May 2020, with a theme “How to ensure Ecosystem-Based Approach (EBA) principles in the context of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP)”. More than 300 participants joined the online seminar from over 45 different countries and had the opportunity to hear the perspective of five different speakers all across the world:
SECOND STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING - MARSPLAN-BS II PROJECT
Despite the global pandemic caused by COVID-19, Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) process continues in the Black Sea: on 7 May 2020, the Second Steering Committee (SC) Meeting of the MARSPLAN-BS II Project was successfully conducted in a video-conference format. The meeting was organised by the Ministry of Public Works, Development and Administration of Romania with the participation of the MARSPLAN-BS II project partnership, as well as representatives from the EC`DG MARE and EASME. The CCMS is one of the Bulgarian partners in the project.
