DCT professor participates in a study that warns of the impacts of human pollution on the continental shelf of the Algarve

In addition to the University of Coimbra (UC), the OnOff project includes the University of Lisbon (UL), the University of Algarve (UAlg), the Hydrographic Institute and the Portuguese Environment Agency, in Portugal; the University of Aachen (Germany) and the United States Geological Survey.

"The information obtained at sea is combined with data obtained on land, in lagoon and estuarine areas of the Algarve", says Pedro Costa. Started in 2018, OnOff essentially aims to fully reconstruct extreme events, such as tsunamis and storms, and their impacts on the Portuguese coast, based on geological evidence, that is, «seeks to seek information from the seabed to carry out the reconstruction of events extremes, whether from tsunamis, storms or floods, and also from more recent phenomena, such as pollution»

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