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UN Ocean Decade Endorsement
SPASS Decade Action entitled “No.58.10. Small Plastics in the Ocean’s Interior.” was officially endorsed. SPASS project will be attached to the UN Decade Programme “No. 189. Joint Exploration of the Twilight Zone Ocean Network (JETZON).”. 
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SPASS at the SCOR Annual Meeting
Dr. Luisa Galgani, SPASS Co-Chair, presented an overview of the Working Group’s progress during its first year at the SCOR Annual Meeting on September 9, 2026. 
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SCOR Annual Meeting
September 8-10: 2026 SCOR Annual Meeting! House of Science and Letters (Tieteiden talo), Helsinki, Finland.
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IMDOS Endorsement
SPASS was officially endorsed by the Integrated Marine Debris Observing System (IMDOS) through the support of Dr. Giuseppe Suaria, who is a member of both IMDOS and SPASS. IMDOS is a global coordination body launched to standardize marine debris monitoring and support the Global Plastics Treaty. It operates with official endorsement from the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) GPML. 
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SPASS Workshop, October 11, 2026
We are organizing a SCOR SPASS Working Group meeting on October 11th in downtown Cadiz, Spain. This will be held as a side meeting of MICRO2026. The SPASS Workshop will follow a hybrid format, and we welcome scientists to join us either in person or online. Click Here for Registeration
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SPASS members meeting at the Ocean Science Meeting 2026 in Glasgow, UK
The SPASS co-chairs Karin and Shiye met in person for the first time at OSM 2026 in Glasgow, where they co-chaired the session “Plastics in the Ocean: Pathways, Impacts, and Analytical Advances”, although they had already been collaborating for several years. 
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AtlanticPlastics2026: Arctic to the Antarctic
The 3rd International Symposium on Marine Plastic Pollution will be held in Reykjavik (Iceland) during 20-22 October, 2026. Atlantic Plastics 2026
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1st SPASS Online Meeting
On Jan. 16th, the SPASS WG members met online, for the first time, to discuss the group’s objectives, planned activities, and next steps for coordinating our work.
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MICRO2026
Join MICRO 2026 in Cádiz (Spain), 12–16 October 2026! 
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WG 174
SPASS working gourp officially lanuched. 