25 Sep 2025
BlueAdapt contributes by understanding climate impacts on coastal pathogens — because healthier waters mean healthier lives.
#SDG3 #SDG6 #SDG14 #OneHealth #ClimateHealth #ClimateChange
On this day 10 year ago, the #SDGs were agreed upon and announced. Tell us about your activities since 2015 to advance the #SDGs. Tag us!
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25 Sep 2025
🥳10 years of the #SDGs💙🌍!
At BlueAdapt, we contribute to #SDG3, #SDG6 & #SDG14 by studying how climate change affects pathogens in rivers, estuaries & coastal waters — protecting communities, ensuring safer water, and supporting resilient ecosystems.
👉youtube.com/watch?v=hPyHKf8g…
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9 Jul 2025
🏖️How can we keep people safe at the coast this summer?
🌊 📹 Watch this 1-minute animation on the health risks you can’t see — and how to protect communities.
#BlueAdapt #OneHealth #CoastalHealth #ClimateChange #HorizonEurope #ClimateHealth
blueadapt.eu/resource/bluead…
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26 Sep 2024
We're proud to be one of 6 projects in the #ClimateHealthEu Cluster! Play our 'Spot the Difference' game to uncover how we are collectively making an impact 🌎🦠🦟🧪🤝🌊🤧
#WEHD2024 @ECEHH @HorizonEU @EUScienceInnov #HorizonEU @UKRI_News @ExeterMed #BlueAdapt
26 Sep 2024
Play our "Spot the Differences" game!
🌍 This #WEHD2024, we invite you to explore the critical role of environmental health in addressing climate change and building resilient communities.
🔍Can you spot 6 interventions from our projects?
Need a hint? Here are a few clues ⬇️🕵️♀️
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26 Sep 2024
🔵@BlueAdaptEu addresses climate-based health risks from pathogens in coastal waters. BlueAdapt explores how pathogens like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites are affected by climate change, identifying policy initiatives to reduce emerging health risks.
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4 Sep 2024
It’s been great for BlueAdapt to be able to link with @UniofExeter, including @TimTaylorEnvEco and @WillHGaze, and @BangorUni’s @bangorsoil through the @UKRI_News Horizon Europe guarantee funding.
4 Sep 2024
We've now awarded £2 billion in Horizon Europe guarantee funding.
The funding has gone to UK-based researchers, innovators and businesses tackling everything from studying bacteria in waters to artificial intelligence combating drug trafficking.
More: ukri.org/news/uk-celebrates-…
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24 Jul 2024
"Increased chronic diseases, exacerbated by lifestyle, socio-economic factors, pollution & climate hazards, are creating a pool of people at higher risk of infectious diseases." Read more from @ermorrissey's wrap up of our recent #BlueAdapt Symposium.
🔗 bit.ly/4dbzZXu
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20 Jun 2024
Help improve water safety! 🌊 Take part in the BlueAdapt Sea User Health Survey to see how real-time water quality info impacts swimmer behaviour and reduces illness. Survey runs until the end of October. Your input matters! 📷blueadapt.eu/sea-user-health…… #BlueAdapt #PublicHealth
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12 Jun 2024
💫 @JessKevill is flying the 🏴 flag for @BangorUni this week 👏 Jess is our leading Post Doc on BlueAdapt project 🦠 based at Bangor
12 Jun 2024
Welcome to everyone who has joined us in-person and online for today's research symposium! We're all here to understand how to reduce health risks in coastal waters from:
● #Bacteria and #viruses
● #Antimicrobialresistance
● #Climatechange
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5 Jun 2024
🏖 Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay – and it is more vital than ever to protect our oceans to reduce health threats from #ClimateChange and #Pollution. But how?
Join us next week to hear from #BlueAdapt, the @EnvAgency @sascampaigns and @CornwallCouncil: blueadapt.eu/symposium
ALT Mud Samples from Mussel bed along the River Conwy
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Now out in @STOTEN_journal
Strategies for integrating scientific evidence in water policy and law in the face of uncertainty doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.…
@BlueAdapt @SYKEinfo @helsinkiuni @INRAE_NA_BDX
#EABX
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30 Apr 2024
Interesting article on @BBCNews detailing call from sports organisations for UK government to tackle water pollution. Sports users are at increased risk of disease from polluted rivers and seas - in BlueAdapt we are examining current and future risks.
bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c6p…
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8 Feb 2024
"In extreme heat the ground becomes dry, causing rainwater to flow into the sewers where it causes overflows into the ocean." Dr Jessica Kevill @BangorUni explains how our research will help to protect people from contamination in the face of #climatechange. #BlueAdapt 🏊🏾♀️🚣🏾🐟🦐🏖️
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11 Jan 2024
Researchers from #BlueAdapt have optimised a method to evaluate the risk of infectious viruses in wastewater, providing a crucial tool for protecting #publichealth in the face of #climatechange.
11 Jan 2024
🦠🏊🏾♀️A breakthrough in #wastewater monitoring! Dr Jessica Kevill & Prof Davey Jones from @Bangoruni have used dye (PMAxx) to pinpoint infectious viruses found in sewage that can end up in the ocean.
🔗 bit.ly/41Ulu60
#mdpiviruses #climatehealthcluster #blueadapt
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11 Jan 2024
🦠🏊🏾♀️A breakthrough in #wastewater monitoring! Dr Jessica Kevill & Prof Davey Jones from @Bangoruni have used dye (PMAxx) to pinpoint infectious viruses found in sewage that can end up in the ocean.
🔗 bit.ly/41Ulu60
#mdpiviruses #climatehealthcluster #blueadapt
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8 Jan 2024
Check out summary of weak signals and plausible #wildcard events relevant for offshore wind published recently in Journal of Futures Studies @BlueAdapt @EREHelsinki @jamie_jenkins92
8 Jan 2024
New paper recently published collecting and identifying trends, weak signals and wild cards for the offshore wind industry. @KariHyytiainen
jfsdigital.org/articles-and-…
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2 Jan 2024
Very happy to see this article co-authored with Inese Huttunen, @Nkotamaki, Harri Kuosa and Janne Ropponen out in @Ambio_Journal . You can access the open access version here 👇
rdcu.be/dunfR @BlueAdapt @SYKEint @EREHelsinki link.springer.com/article/10…
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22 Dec 2023
BlueAdapt päättyy vuoden 2023 loppuun - kiitos kaikille 6-vuotisen hankkeemme seuraamisesta! 🌊
Käy lukemassa hankkeen tuotoksia sivuillamme 👉 blueadapt.fi/
🎧Podcasteja voi kuunnella 👉shows.acast.com/blueadapt/
@Akatemia_STN
@AnstiHeiskanen
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19 Dec 2023
This year we've loved showcasing the incredible people working behind the scenes to carry out our crucial research. You can sign up to our newsletter for the next update in 2024. Until then, have a wonderful Winter break and enjoy the water safely!🌊🙌🏾🌊 #BlueAdapt
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5 Dec 2023
🥼Researchers at Bangor Uni have been working with FSA PathSAFE and BlueAdapt projects studying norovirus 🤢in the environment 🌍
➡️ food.gov.uk/our-work/path-sa…
@foodgov
@KataFarkas211 @JessKevill
5 Dec 2023
Norovirus is a common stomach bug that usually clears up after a couple of days.
If you have symptoms of norovirus, stay home for 48 hours after they clear. This will help prevent others from catching the virus 🤒🏡.
ALT Image of person clutching stomach. Text reads: "Symtpms of Norovirus. The main symptoms are vomiting and diarrhoea. Other symptoms include, mild fever, headaches, stomach cramps, aching limbs."
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