A team of more than 50 volunteers – university students and lecturers, early-career scientists and experienced researchers, engineers from the private sector, and local community representatives- participated in the fieldwork and clean-up on the 6th of November 2022.

Considering the weather conditions – heavy rain and strong wind in a project pilot area, and the density of plastic litter distributions on the Caspian Sea coastal zone near Neftcahala region in Azerbaijan, the teamwork was organised in 10 groups with 4-6 persons in each. Despite the harsh late autumn weather, the team members kept motivated, and the mission was successfully completed.

CRIPTIC is a joint project financially supported by HMF and led by Akvaplan-niva. The partners are the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), SALT, TerraNor from Norway; Azerbaijan Geographical Society (AGS) with Caspian Integrated Scientific Network (CASPISNET) – co-lead from Azerbaijan, the Institute of Geography of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (IGA), The Institute of Geography - The Ministry of Science and Education of Azerbaijan Republic, Executive Power of Neftchala Region, BP Azerbaijan, AT-GEOTECH LLC, ESRI, Azercosmos, Caspian Locus LLC, Spectra LLC, AZ-GREEN, Caspian Geomatics LLC, Water Expert Union (WEU), Baku Engineering University, Baku Clean City, AZ EKOL and Sukanal SRDI of Azersu from Azerbaijan.

For more information about the project please contact:

1. Dr. Peygham Ghaffari - CRIPTIC Project manager,

    e-mail:  [email protected]  

2. Dr. Elnur Safarov   - CRIPTIC Project Manager for Azerbaijan,

    e-mail: [email protected]