Under the Surface

In this episode I am joined by Justine Ammendolia and Jackie Saturno, both Environmental Scientists at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Canada.

I talk to Justine and Jackie about their work on PPE related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how it is having an impact in the environment.

For more on Justine Jackie's work, check out: 

Tracking the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic-related debris on wildlife using digital platforms

Citizen science: A way forward in tackling the plastic pollution crises during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

An emerging source of plastic pollution: Environmental presence of plastic personal protective equipment (PPE) debris related to COVID-19 in a metropolitan city

https://twitter.com/JustineAmmendo1

https://twitter.com/jackie_saturno

In this episode I am joined by two guests - Dr Joan D’Arcy and Dr Julien Moreau, co-founders of Plastic@Bay, a community interest company which started in the north west highlands, near cape wrath, and is now based in the Isle of Lewis, in Scotland.

I talk to Joan and Julien about their work monitoring, collecting, and recycling marine plastics in the north of Scotland.

For more information about their wonderful and important work see:

https://www.plasticatbay.org/

In this episode I speak to Martin Charter, Professor of Innovation and Sustainability, and Director of The Centre for Sustainable Design and the business school the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, England. We talk about the Circular Economy, challenges and opportunities concerning marine plastics, the work of repair cafes, and cricket .

https://www.uca.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/professor-martin-charter/

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/martin-charter-frsa-6289097

http://www.circularocean.eu/eco-innovation-toolkit/

https://www.routledge.com/Designing-for-the-Circular-Economy/Charter/p/book/9781138081017

I talk to Dr Alex Bond, Principal Curator of Birds at the Natural History Museum. We talk about the ingestion of plastics by birds, including work on Lord Howe Island, and the importance of good people in science.

https://twitter.com/TheLabAndField

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/alex-bond.html

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749121016687?via%3Dihub

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X21009231?via%3Dihub

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X21007402?via%3Dihub

In this episode I am joined by Vanessa Ryan from WWF Finland. We talk about Vanessa's role as Marine Conservation Officer, their work on oil spill response preparedness in Finland, and the importance of volunteers.

https://twitter.com/vanessa_ryanwwf

https://wwf.fi/en/

https://eurowa.eu/

In this episode I talk to Dr Lola Paradinas, who has concluded their research at SAMS, Oban, Scotland, on the distribution of microplastics around Scotland. I talk to Lola about their work, and in particular the role of citizen scientists and how they can contribute to microplastics research.

https://www.sams.ac.uk/people/research-students/lola-paradinas/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lola-paradinas-3784bba7/

https://twitter.com/lola_paradinas

https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.657709

In this episode I talk to Dr Paritosh Deshpande, Associate Professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. I will talking to Paritosh about their work on the life cycle management of fishing gear in Norway.

https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/paritosh.deshpande

https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094914

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcrx.2019.100024

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137353

In this episode I talk to Dr Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy, who is based in Scotland at the Environmental Research Institute, part of the University of the Highlands and Islands. I talk to Lonneke about their work on the remote sensing of marine plastics.

https://eri.ac.uk/members/lonneke-goddijn-murphy/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lonneke-goddijn-murphy-61718610b/?originalSubdomain=uk

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.11.011

https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6d7d

In this episode I talk to Dr Nina O’Hanlon, who is based in Scotland and is a research Ecologist at the British Trust for Ornithology. Nina talks about their work on the interaction of plastics and seabirds, and in particular the incorporation of debris into nests.

Incidents of birds either entangled in debris or incorporating it into their nests can be reported to www.birdsanddebris.com 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112889

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112706

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113152

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2017.08.101

The guest in Episode 1 is Niko Hänninen from the University of Oulu, who talks about the APP4SEA project. APP4SEA (Arctic Preparedness Platform for Oil Spill and Other Environmental Accidents) was funded by the EU's Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme, and aimed to improve our preparedness for oil spills in the Arctic.

As traffic increases in the region, oil rigs and pipelines are set up in Arctic seas, the risks of potential accidents are increasing too. The Arctic region has been spared from large-scale oil spills, since the ice and cold has kept us away from the north. However, if the seas become more accessible because of global warming, we must be ready to deal with potential oil spills. Find out about how APP4SEA has been helping to prepare for oil spills through the SmartMap. 

For more information:

APP4SEA - https://app4sea.interreg-npa.eu/

APP4SEA SmartMap - http://app4sea.com/

POPCORN - https://popcorn.interreg-npa.eu/