ViewpointMODELPlastics workshop - Modelling Ocean Plastic Litter in a Changing Climate: Gaps and future directions
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Acknowledgements
Authors acknowledge EuroMarine for funding through a Foresight Workshop EuroMarine 2017 call, participants in group discussions, CIIMAR (Portugal), MARE (Portugal), OGS (Italy), IEO (Spain) for institutional support. A.M.M.G. and F.B. acknowledge FCT- Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal) through the strategic project UID/MAR/04292/2019 granted to MARE and the post-doctoral grants SFRH/BPD/97210/2013 (A.M.M.G.) and SFRH/BPD/99747/2014 (F.B.) co-funded by the Human Potential
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