Heavy metal concentration in precipitation and their impact on the environment

Project title: Heavy metal concentration in precipitation and their impact on the environment
Project number: 1.1.1.9/LZP/1/24/141
Research manager (Postdoctoral fellow): Dr. Anda Ābola
Project partners: none
Project implementation time: 01.03.2025 – 29.02.2028
Total project funding:: 184 140 EUR, including ERDF 156 519 EUR
Aim of the project:
(1) To perform heavy metal - mercury and indium - concentration monitoring in the rainwater, to assess them as a potential pollution source,
(2) To perform spectral diagnostics of indium-containing light sources to optimize them for usage in atomic absorption spectroscopy.
Project results:  Scientific publications - 3

• COST Action CA20137 VOICES eveny ‘Capacity Building Symposium for Early Carrier Researchers’ Vilnius, Lithuania (03.-04.03.2025)
• 36^th International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG) - 20-25 July, 2025, Aix en Provence, France. Poster report on first results published in the conference Abstract book