DTU AQUA National Institute of Aquatic Resources
Section for Oceans and Arctic
Henrik Dams Allé
Building 201, room 166
2800 Kgs. Lyngby
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On 10 January 2024, Gunaalan Kuddithamby will defend his PhD thesis. The defence can be followed online and at DTU Lyngby Campus.
A new PhD lights a candle in the darkness of plastic waste. Contrary to the concerns so far, some of the smallest in the marine ecosystem do not ingest microplastics
On 6 April 2022, Rocío Rodríguez Torres from DTU Aqua will defend her PhD thesis. It is possible to attend the defence at DTU in Lyngby and online.
When researchers from DTU Aqua travel to Disko Bay in Greenland this March, it is one trip out of many monitoring trips over the last three decades. And the results speak for themselves: The marine environment has changed markedly, and the basis of the food chain, the plankton, has been affected.
A new study shows that concentrations of microscopic plastic particles in the sea along the west coast of Greenland are roughly the same as in the Atlantic Ocean
Birds and fish in the Disko Bay no longer have access to the same amount of two Arctic fat-rich copepod species as they did 25 years ago, according to recent research.
Professor Torkel Gissel Nielsen responds daily to questions about plastics in the sea from students and the press. He finds it astonishing that undocumented assertions continue to be repeated so insistently.
DTU is co-operating with four other research institutions to investigate the impact of plastic in the ocean and the need for new legislation
Plankton—the foundation of the food chains in the Arctic Ocean—are affected by concentrations of oil pollution much lower than previously assumed.
Researchers from DTU Aqua are coordinating a new project investigating what pollution means for the marine life in the Gulf of Guinea.
The concentration of microplastics in water and fish from the Baltic Sea has been constant for the past 30 years, despite a substantial increase in plastic production during the same period. This is the surprising conclusion of a new study just published in Science of the Total Environment.
Studies have estimated that each year between 4 and 12 million tonnes of plastics end up in the sea, and that the figure is expected to double over the next ten years. But we have only begun to learn what happens with the plastics afterwards. Two students on the MSc programme Aquatic Science and Technology have now developed a method...
What happens to life in the sea in the Arctic in the event of an oil spill? And will the actual clean-up operation have a negative impact on the marine environment? An international team of oceanographers is attempting to answer these very questions.
The expedition has at times battled 12-metre Atlantic swells , making it impossible to get equipment in the water. However, expedition leader Peter Munk of DTU Aqua and his research team will return from the Sargasso Sea with unique knowledge about the place where Danish eels are born.
A group of biologists from DTU Aqua crossed the Atlantic in May 2013 on the Norwegian research vessel G.O. Sars as part of a European project, EURO-BASIN. Master student Frederik Wolff Teglhus has made a short film with footage from the trip– for instance explaining how counting the fecal pellets of zooplankton can help us understand...
A new study, published in Ecotoxicology, shows lowered reproductive output, reduced grazing, and reduced ability to metabolize pyrene in the copepod Calanus hyberboreus, which suggest that oil contamination may constitute a risk to energy transfer in the Arctic food web and transfer of pyrene to higher trophic levels.