The SILENT AMAZON expedition concluded successfully on the 15 December of 2019. After 30 days navigating the river, the field team has achieved its main goal: collecting 40 samples of water across different anthropogenic pressure gradients in the basin. It has been more than 1500 km, and focal sampling in four major cities: Manaus, Santarém, Macapá and Belém. Moreover, the team has managed to get 17 macrophyte and 53 fish samples. Water samples have been send to different laboratories in Brazil, Spain, Norway and Italy to analyze pesticides, pharmaceuticals, POPs, PFAS, heavy metals, microplastics and microbial communities. More news on the sampling results will come soon!
