Exhibition on the marine environment with panels designed by students of MEMIC and the Double Degree in Environmental Sciences and Marine Sciences and Technologies.
With the aim of bringing the university community closer to marine ecosystems and the importance of their conservation, the Gandia Campus of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) hosts an exhibition dedicated to the biodiversity of the marine environment.
As the researcher Blanca Feliu explains, the exhibition “Biodiversity and anthropogenic disturbances in the marine environment” promoted by the association Eucrante “is a way to bring to schools the richness of the ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea and the risks that threaten them”. In addition, this initiative is part of a science outreach project funded by the Department of Environment of the City of Gandia.
Illustrative panels on Mediterranean biodiversity
The exhibition “Biodiversity and anthropic disturbances in the marine environment” is made up of six panels, each of which deals with a different theme: cetaceans, sandy bottoms, coraligenous bottoms, Posidonia oceanica, Trophic Networks and Marine Turtles. All the panels follow the same structure: a description of the characteristics of the ecosystem or group of organisms addressed and a section on the main threats to which they are exposed, including some advice for action.
It should be noted that these panels have been designed by a group of five students of the Master’s Degree in Environmental Assessment and Monitoring of Marine and Coastal Ecosystems and of the Double Degree in Environmental Sciences and Marine Sciences and Technologies from the Gandia Campus who participate as volunteers in the activities carried out by the association Eucrante.
About Eucrante
Eucrante is a non-profit organization formed by staff, faculty and students of the UPV Gandia Campus. Among its purposes are the dissemination, conservation and study of the marine environment and its ecosystems under the motto “Think globally, act locally”. In addition, it “carries out beach cleaning activities, informative talks, data collection for the knowledge of the populations of fauna and flora, workshops… and is open to the participation of volunteers for the realization of any of these activities,” says researcher Blanca Feliu.
The exhibition “Biodiversity and anthropic disturbances in the marine environment” can be visited until January 31 in the Study Room, located on the first floor of the Library Campus Gandia – CRAI, during the usual opening hours of the center..