AIR-ES

09/07/2025

In case you missed it — it’s at UP ISC!

Join us today, 9 July 2025 (Wednesday) at 4:00 PM PHT for a webinar on how AI-powered autonomous robots are being used to detect, classify, and collect underwater litter.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/UPISCWebinar

Our speakers from Delft University of Technology, Dr. Bart De Schutter and Kaya ter Burg, will introduce the SeaClear and SeaClear2.0 projects, featuring a coordinated team of drones, surface vessels, and underwater robots working together to tackle marine pollution.

If you’ve already registered but haven’t received your Zoom access link, please email us at [email protected] and we’ll make sure you get it in time.

We hope to see you there!

05/10/2024

Hot off the press. Policy brief on AI based technologies for marine litter tracking and monitoring.

Artificial Intelligence and Marine Litter Monitoring and Tracking: Investing in AI Technologies in the Philippines

31/01/2023

Hot off the press!

Congrats to the Marine Litter team!

The scarcity of information about benthic marine litter especially in developing countries hampers the implementation of targeted actions to minimize the extent of its impacts. This study developed a system using image processing and deep learning methods for...

25/12/2022

📢📢 International Publication 📢📢
The Team is proud to share a first study of its kind! Using to quantify exposure of to floating in nearshore waters!
The study is published in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin with an Impact factor of 7.001.

The study is partly funded by the UP Mindanao in house research grant.

Click the link below for a free copy (available for 50days)!

Litter is a serious threat to the marine environment, with detrimental effects on wildlife and marine biodiversity. Limited data as a result of fundin…

14/12/2022

litter detector in action (lab testing)

17/11/2022

Interested to know more about marine litter research? Join our Project Development Officer 2 Neil Angelo Abreo as he presents his findings at the Conference!

Margaulis Room Session 17.1
9-10am Lanzarote time (5:00-6:00pm Philippine time)

Click the link: https://www.micro.infini.fr

24/10/2022

Drones are not just for stunning wedding photos! Join our Project Development Officer Neil Angelo Abreo as he discuss how you can use drones to address some of the knowledge gaps in marine litter research!

Eco/nnect Seminar Series 4.0

Title: Eye in the Sky: Drone highlights exposure of Marine Turtles to floating litter in nearshore waters
Speaker: Niel Angelo Abreo
Affiliation: Project Development Officer 2, Marine Litter Project, AI and Robotics Lab - Environmental Studies, University of the Philippines-Mindanao
Date: 25th of October 2022
Time: 3:00 PM Philippine Time
Venue: Zoom meeting (online)
Meeting ID: 849 4195 2628
Passcode: Ecology22
Register at: https://bit.ly/3VlzuC9

*Our Zoom meeting can only accommodate 100 participants, and we will stream our seminar via our official Lab's page (https://www.facebook.com/EcoCon-Lab) and our YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC47hYFxnunhCafXsPBfpTvw)

Photo credits: Unsplash

11/09/2022

Time for Action!

The Marine Litter Project would like to invite everyone to join the Fight against and help preserve the nesting site of Pawikans in Davao City!

Register here: https://forms.gle/4NuCWbQ6Vi182LKv8

project

07/09/2022

Later this afternoon!

Our Project Development Officer Neil Angelo Abreo will be sharing the results of his thesis research on using to provide relevant data on floating and in a webinar organized by King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Center for Environment and Marine Studies.

engagement Project

18/08/2022

Join us in addressing the problem! We are currently looking for a Clerk IV!

For interested people, see attached photo for details!

17/08/2022

We congratulate the Project Development Officer Neil Angelo Abreo of the Marine Litter Project for successfully defending his masters thesis. way to go!