During the DGT2023 international congress, which brings together world experts in the use of passive samplers of environmental pollutants, our colleague Juan Santos presented a paper entitled “The utility of passive samplers to monitor changes in trace metal levels in a coastal lagoon under different singular environmental events”. This work highlights the suitability of using this type of sampler in…

A paper has recently been published in the international journal Science of the Total Environment on the influence of the easterly wind on the levels of metals in the waters of the Mar Menor. The strong easterly winds cause the sediment in this shallow lagoon to resuspend, causing an increase in the concentrations of metals in the dissolved and particulate…

This article, published in open access in The Science of the Total Environment (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165989), applies the use of stable Cu isotopes and demonstrates that Cu internalization depends on labile Cu at relatively high Cu concentrations (greater than 30 nM), while at lower concentrations, Cu organic complexes are partially bioavailable to the dinoflagellate. This fact questions the applicability of the Biotic…