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According to a new study, services offered by this project bring solutions to some of citizen observatories' most critical technological challenges.

The details of this research, led by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), are reported in an article published recently in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

A new study led by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) and the University of Barcelona (UB) shows how a great diversity of marine organisms attach themselves to plastics and, with these, are dragged along by marine currents.

This has been confirmed by researchers from the ICM-CSIC after producing sea salinity data obtained from measurements by the European Space Agency's (ESA) SMOS satellite, which were later incorporated into the TOPAZ Arctic prediction model.

Scientists from the University of Girona, CSIC and University of Barcelona in Spain warn of the "serious impacts" that these facilities may have on marine biodiversity, the landscape/seascape, fishing and tourism.

According to the work, they could have arrived in this remote area through the discharge of wastewater from washing machines at Antarctic bases and ships visiting the area.