Monitoring and Analysis of Environmental Pollution II

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".

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Dear Colleagues,

Monitoring and assessment of environmental pollution is a challenging task today, and it is particularly important for the understanding of the sources and levels of contamination of the environment with agents that interfere with human health, quality of life, or the natural function of ecosystems (living organisms and the environment in which they live), as well as unravelling the effects of individual or mixtures of pollutants, their pathways, routes of exposure, and risk factors.

The palette of pollutants in the environment, originating from human-made or natural sources, is exceptionally large and includes chemicals, organisms, and biological materials, and various forms of energy (ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, heat, noise, etc.). The number of pollutant factors is continuously growing, and their presence in the environment in an amount exceeding a limit that can be tolerated by one or more species of living things, or by humans, could inhibit their normal development and damage either the environment or human health.

This Special Issue welcomes submissions that report results from original and novel research addressing problems related to environmental pollution and its impact on ecosystems and human health.

Subject areas include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Sources, levels, and distribution of pollutants in the environment, food, and human bodies;
  • Development of techniques for the analysis of occurrence, behavior, and transport of pollutants within environmental compartments;
  • Analysis of contaminants of emerging concern (e.g., pharmaceutical compounds, endocrine disruptors, antibiotic resistant microorganisms, microplastics);
  • Modeling of pollution processes in the environment;
  • Biomonitoring of environmental pollution using various types of biological monitors;
  • Assessment of pollutants’ impact on ecological state of ecosystems and human health;
  • Risk factors related to exposures to pollutants (chemical stressors, radiations, noise) in outdoor and indoor environments.

Dr. Claudia Stihi
Prof. Dr. Antoaneta Ene
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Marine Macro-Litter (Plastic) Pollution of German and North African Marina and City-Port Sea Floors
by Gerald Schernewski, Gabriela Escobar Sánchez, Philipp Wandersee, Xaver Lange, Mirco Haseler and Abdallah Nassour
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(20), 11424; https://doi.org/10.3390/app132011424 - 18 Oct 2023
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The macro-litter (plastic) sea-bottom pollution of 14 city harbors and marinas in North Africa and in the western Baltic Sea was investigated using a new simple mobile underwater camera system. The study was complemented by a harbor-manager survey and 3D hydrodynamic transport simulations. [...] Read more.
The macro-litter (plastic) sea-bottom pollution of 14 city harbors and marinas in North Africa and in the western Baltic Sea was investigated using a new simple mobile underwater camera system. The study was complemented by a harbor-manager survey and 3D hydrodynamic transport simulations. The average pollution in German marinas was 0.1 particles/m2 sea floor (0.04–1.75). The pollution in North African marinas on average was seven times higher (0.7 particles/m2) and exceeded 3 particles/m2 in city-center harbors. The resulting > 100,000 litter particles per harbor indicate the existence of a problem. At 73–74%, plastic particles are dominating. Existing legal and management frameworks explain the lack of plastic bottles and bags on sea floors in Germany and are one reason for the lower pollution levels. Items that indicate the role of untreated sewage water were not found. Harbor festivals seem to be quantitatively irrelevant for open sea-bottom pollution. Our method tends to underestimate the pollution level. Model simulations indicate that storms can cause litter reallocations and sediment cleanings. However, marina sea-floor monitoring is recommendable because it addresses pollution hotspots, is cost-effective and takes place close to emission sources. Further, the effectiveness of land-based pollution-reduction measures can easily be assessed. Full article
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