“Does tourism play a role in causing surface water pollution?”
On the 1st of March the Gulbene Municipality and Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology organized a webinar “Does tourism play a role in causing surface water pollution?” Participants of the event were informed about the project “Lakes connect” and its goals, about the...
Second online meeting of partners
This was the second project online meeting attended by all partners. At the beginning there was a reminder of the rules and deadlines for reporting the first period of the project. During the meeting, the participants presented and discussed the current research tasks...
Testing of methods for sampling microplastics from sand on the beach and water surface in Latvia
At the end of March research assistant Valentina Burdukovska from the Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology went to Kurzeme region in Latvia to test out microplastic sampling methods for beach sand and water surface, as well as to inform local inhabitants about the...