Seven heavy metals, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni and Zn, were measured in marine sediments, plants and invertebrates in the vicinity of a ferro-nickel smelting plant in Greece. The concentrations of metals in the sediment were higher than those found in the average unpolluted Greek coastal sediment. High levels of metals were observed in the gastropod molluscs, particularly Cerithium vulgatum, which ...

Airborne hyperspectral imagery from the Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI) has been proven to be a valuable tool for coastal measurements and analysis. CASI's spectral resolution of 288 bands for each spatial pixel allows for the extraction of a vast amount of information such as water clarity, water temperature, bottom type, bathymetry, as well as water quality (chlorophyll, dissolv...

1 Department of Global Change Research, Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universitat de les Illes Balears, Esporles, Illes Balears, Spain 2 Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry Research, School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia 3 Laboratório de Biotecnologia de Algas, Departament...