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ATLANTIC WHALE DEAL: Mitigating Ship Strikes and Enhancing Carbon Sequestration in the Atlantic

ATLANTIC WHALE DEAL will test innovative technologies to mitigate ship-whale collisions, fostering transnational cooperation. It will develop detection techniques, risk and acoustic pollution maps, and evaluate whales' ecosystem services. The project aims to protect biodiversity and enhance ocean ecosystems with a long-term sustainable plan.

The ATLANTIC WHALE DEAL will test innovative technologies to mitigate ship strikes. Ships and whales co-occur across coastal and open sea areas, requiring transnational cooperation between multiple stakeholders to prevent collisions and biodiversity loss.

The project aims to develop solutions to reduce ship strikes, thus enhancing carbon sequestration, given the whales’ pivotal role in ecosystem functioning. The project will produce (acoustic, visual, and thermal) detection and localization techniques, create maps of collision risk and acoustic contamination integrated into interactive tools, evaluate the ecosystem services provided by whales, and propose a long-term sustainable plan.

Physicists, engineers, biologists, statisticians, designers, and socioeconomists from four countries of the Atlantic Area will join efforts towards effective solutions to benefit society through governmental, non-governmental, academic, and commercial bodies.

ATLANTIC WHALE DEAL: Mitigating Ship Strikes and Enhancing Carbon Sequestration in the Atlantic

Ref

EAPA_0004/2022

Program and Call for proposals

Interreg Atlantic Area 2021-2027 / Call 1 / Priority 2 - Blue /Green environment. Specific Objective RSO2.7. Enhancing protection and preservation of nature, biodiversity and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution

Start date

12/01/2023

End date

11/30/2026

Duration in months

36

TOTAL COST

3.499.922,29 €

Cost for PLOCAN

610.449,67 €

Total funded

2.624.941,40 €

Financed for PLOCAN

457.837,25 €

Coordinator

Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação, Tecnologia e Inovação (PT)

Partners

ARDITI (PT) - MAR ILIMITADO (PT) - ULPGC (ES) - PLOCAN (ES) - CIIMAR (PT) - LA ROCHELLE (FR) - UC DUBLIN (IE) - BDRI (ES) - IWDG (IE) - AIR CENTRE (PT) - DRPM( PT) - CNRS (FR) - ULL (ES). Associated partners: Atlânticoline (PT) - FRED.OLSEN (ES)

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