Tim Silverwood is an award-winning environmentalist committed to reducing human impacts on the natural world, and the co-founder of ‘Take 3 for the Sea’. This year, Tim launched Ocean Impact Organisation (OIO), Australia's first ocean impact ecosystem and startup accelerator helping people to start, grow and invest in businesses that positively impact the ocean. We talk about the need for 'business as unusual', the vision for OIO, and how folk can jump on the OIO love bus.

This is a two-part conversation, with the second (and final) part released next week. This is also the second time Tim has been on the Ocean Protect podcast, with Tim's first appearance in Season 1, Episode 10 (in May 2019).

For more info about Tim and OIO, check out http://www.timsilverwood.com/ and https://www.ocean-impact.org/

For further information about Ocean Protect, check us out at www.oceanprotect.com.au

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This is the second (and final) part of our two-part conversation with Dr Jennifer Lavers - with the first part released last week.

You can find out more about Jennifer and recent publications from Adrift Lab at https://adriftlab.org/jennifer

For further information about Ocean Protect, check us out at www.oceanprotect.com.au

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Dr Jennifer Lavers is a marine eco-toxicologist and seabird expert, Lecturer in marine science at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Tasmania, and researcher at Adrift Lab. Jennifer is also an AMAZING science communicator, and has featured in documentary films such as A Plastic Ocean, BLUE, and Drowning in Plastic. We talk about the scope and severity of the marine plastic pollution problem, Jennifer's research, and how we can beat plastic pollution.

This is a two-part conversation, with the second (and final) part released next week.

You can find out more about Jennifer and recent publications from Adrift Lab at https://adriftlab.org/jennifer

For further information about Ocean Protect, check us out at www.oceanprotect.com.au

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This is the second (and final) part of our two-part conversation with Khory Hancock - with the first part released last week.

More info about Khory is available at https://khoryhancock.com/

For further information about Ocean Protect, check us out at www.oceanprotect.com.au

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Khory Hancock (aka 'The Environmental Cowboy') is a man of many talents - Environmental and Sustainability Advisor, Television Presenter, Public Speaker, and Creative Writer - and seemingly flashes his muscles almost as much as our Ocean Protect podcast co-hosts. The focus of this chat is about mitigating and possibly reversing climate change via 'drawdown' - specifically, using deep ocean seaweed farms (or 'marine permaculture arrays') to capture and sequester carbon dioxide out of our atmosphere and into seaweed. So, let's turn on, tune in, and drop out a whole lot of CO2 out of our atmosphere.

This is a two-part conversation, with the second (and final) part released next week.

More info about Khory is available at https://khoryhancock.com/

For further information about Ocean Protect, check us out at www.oceanprotect.com.au

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This is the second (and final) part of our two-part chat with Kathy Willis. Part one was released last week.

Links:

• Kathy Willis: https://research.csiro.au/marinedebris/our-team/kathy-willis/
• CSIRO's marine debris research program: https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/OandA/Areas/Marine-resources-and-industries/Marine-debris
• 2017 journal article "Differentiating littering, urban runoff and marine transport as sources of marine debris in coastal and estuarine environments": ttps://www.nature.com/articles/srep44479
• 2017 article "Microplastic Distribution at Different Sediment Depths in an Urban Estuary": https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00419/full
• 2018 article "How successful are waste abatement campaigns and government policies at reducing plastic waste into the marine environment?": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X17305171
•  2019 article "The Success of Water Refill Stations Reducing Single-Use Plastic Bottle Litter": https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/19/5232/pdf
• Eunomia report "Plastics in the marine environment": https://www.eunomia.co.uk/reports-tools/plastics-in-the-marine-environment/

For further information about Ocean Protect, check us out at www.oceanprotect.com.au

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Kathy Willis is a PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania and CSIRO's Marine Debris team. Her research focuses on preventing litter from the land entering the marine system. In this chat, we discuss Australian local government waste abatement policies, outreach programs and infrastructure and their effectiveness at reducing waste in the marine environment.

This is a two-part conversation, with the second (and final) part released next week.

Links:

• Kathy Willis: https://research.csiro.au/marinedebris/our-team/kathy-willis/
• CSIRO's marine debris research program: https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/OandA/Areas/Marine-resources-and-industries/Marine-debris
• 2017 journal article "Differentiating littering, urban runoff and marine transport as sources of marine debris in coastal and estuarine environments": ttps://www.nature.com/articles/srep44479
• 2017 article "Microplastic Distribution at Different Sediment Depths in an Urban Estuary": https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00419/full
• 2018 article "How successful are waste abatement campaigns and government policies at reducing plastic waste into the marine environment?": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X17305171
•  2019 article "The Success of Water Refill Stations Reducing Single-Use Plastic Bottle Litter": https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/19/5232/pdf

For further information about Ocean Protect, check us out at www.oceanprotect.com.au

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This is the second (and final) part of our two-part chat with Laura Wells. Part one was released last week.

Links:

• Laura Wells: https://www.laurawells.com.au/
• First Ocean Protect Podcast chat with Laura (in 2019 season): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/laura-wells-on-climate-change-plastic-pollution-environmental/id1457637313?i=1000447765716
• Eunomia report "Plastics in the marine environment": https://www.eunomia.co.uk/reports-tools/plastics-in-the-marine-environment/

For further information about Ocean Protect, check us out at www.oceanprotect.com.au

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Laura Wells is an Environmentalist, presenter and one of Australia’s top plus size models, and was on the eXXpedition when the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside down. eXXpedition is an all-female sailing research expedition, investigating the causes of and solutions to ocean plastic pollution - but Laura joins us from Day 8 of hotel quarantine in Sydney. It's a fun chat about the eXXpedition research methods and findings, getting from the high seas to home in a pandemic, and much more.

This is a two-part conversation, with the second (and final) part released next week. This is also the second time Laura has joined us on the Ocean Protect Podcast - with her first appearance being episode 24 in the 2019 season.

Links:

• Laura Wells: https://www.laurawells.com.au/
• First Ocean Protect Podcast chat with Laura: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/laura-wells-on-climate-change-plastic-pollution-environmental/id1457637313?i=1000447765716
• Eunomia report "Plastics in the marine environment": https://www.eunomia.co.uk/reports-tools/plastics-in-the-marine-environment/

For further information about Ocean Protect, check us out at www.oceanprotect.com.au

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This is the second (and final) part of our two-part chat with Ben Pearson, Head of Campaigns at World Animal Protection Australia. Part one was released last week.

Links:

• World Animal Protection Australia: https://www.worldanimalprotection.org.au/
• Ben on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-pearson-69309630/

For further information about Ocean Protect, check us out at www.oceanprotect.com.au

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