SESSION CHAIR: Mark Kirby, Cefas
Keynote: Post-Spill Monitoring in the wider Scientific Landscape – Cefas/Defra Chief Scientist
This session addresses the significance and relevance of emerging issues and how it relates to environmental impact assessment practices.
Presentation topics to include:
- Monitoring in multi-stressor environments – differentiating spill impacts in already impacted areas.
- Plastics – what approaches are relevant for investigating impacts of plastics spills
- Climate change/biodiversity/food security – spill impacts in the context of broad global threats
- Chemical & oil transport trends – how do different cargo trends affect out monitoring preparedness considerations.
