Marine plastics - from Local to Global
- Calendar
- Lectures
- Date
- 09.03.2022 19:30
- Locations
- & CSTS Zoom Channel ID 912 0723 6181 , Royal Agricultural University - Sir Emrys Jones Lecture Theatre
- Speaker
- Professor Andy Cundy
- Director of Internationalisation, University of Southampton
Description
Presentation synopsis:
Marine plastics, and their potential environmental impacts, have seen an explosion in research and public interest over the last 5 years. Plastic debris is now found globally, from the poles to the deepest ocean trenches, and we are only just starting to understand the processes by which plastics move through and break down in the environment and their implications for planetary health.
This presentation will discuss the amounts and sources of plastics reaching the oceans, and (focusing on microplastics) the processes by which they may be trapped and accumulate in river, coastal and marine environments, their potential impacts, current knowledge gaps, and methods of reducing the ocean plastic burden.
Bio:
Andy is a Professor in Geochemistry and Director of Internationalisation in the School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (Southampton). He has over 30 years’ research experience in the environmental cycling and behaviour of aquatic and terrestrial pollutants (metal, organic, plastic and radioactive contaminants); environmental geology; contaminated land, wastes and water management; and estuarine and coastal processes.
Andy has worked across four continents in projects funded by government, environmental bodies, the European Union and private industry, and has published over 140 scientific papers. His interests in riverine and marine plastics date from 2016, and involve research on tracking the transport and accumulation processes of plastics from river and coast to sea.
Location
& CSTS Zoom Channel ID 912 0723 6181
- Street
- Market Place
- City
- Cirencester
- County
- England GL7
Based in Cirencester, Capital of the Cotswolds
Royal Agricultural University - Sir Emrys Jones Lecture Theatre
- Street
- Sir Emrys Jones Lecture Theatre, RAU
- City
- Cirencester
- County
- Gloucestershire GL7 6JS
Royal Agricultural University (RAU) is situated close to the junction of the A419 (Cirencester to Stroud road) and the A433 (Cirencester to Bath road) on the south-west edge of Cirencester.
The entrance to the Stroud Road car park is off the A419. (Satellite View, RAU page and RAU campus map)
The Parkinson Lecture Theatre (19 on the map) can be found by entering from the Stroud Road car park, and following the path on the right-hand side of the Garner Lecture Block, the first entrance on the right leads to the Parkinson Lecture Theatre.
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