Environmental research

Environmental research

Matís is involved in various research and development projects in the field of environmental issues. These include projects related to climate change and greenhouse gas emissions from fisheries and agriculture, plastic pollution in the sea, chemical measurements of Icelandic seafood, as well as microbial research, among other things to investigate the effects of global warming and ocean acidification on microbial diversity and marine cycles.

There has also been a growing emphasis on the development of the eDNA methodology, which will be useful, for example, in monitoring the effects of seaweed farming on benthic ecosystems at pens, mapping new species, assessing fish stock sizes and capelin searches.