8 June is World Ocean Day, which supports collaborative conservation and the sharing of knowledge and actionable resources about the ocean. Ceri Webster, research postgraduate student at Imperial College London and the Zoological Society London studying how to measure biodiversity in the ocean, discusses ocean biodiversity decline, climate change and how to best protect the ocean.
Tag: Oceans
Don’t blame plastic, blame poor waste management
Grantham Affiliate Chris Cheeseman, Professor of Materials Resources Engineering at Imperial College London, considers what’s behind the plastic pollution crisis,…
When it rains it pours: How can cities save the ocean from plastic pollution during heavy rainfall?
Charles Axelsson, a PhD researcher at Italy’s Ca ‘Foscari University, studied his Master’s at Imperial College London, where he worked…
Big oceans, big IT: Modelling plastic pollution in the ocean
Department of Physics undergraduate Thomas Stokes reflects on his recent research placement at the Grantham Institute. Approaching a new project…
Why climate science needs more lunatics
Dr Jan Zika, NERC Independent Research Fellow in the Department of Physics and a Grantham Affiliate explains why we need brilliant…
Where can we best tackle the ocean plastics problem?
Following recent research suggesting that 90% of seabirds have eaten plastic, Department of Physics undergraduate Peter Sherman investigates how we could clean…
Measuring sustainability in our oceans
In the first of our series of blogs on sustainability, SSCP-DTP student Michael Burgass explores how we can measure ocean health….
The case of our missing trash
by Dr Erik van Sebille, Grantham Lecturer in Oceanography and Climate Change Our oceans are filthy with plastic. Most attention so far…
Ocean heat uptake – checking the facts
By Dr Flora Whitmarsh, Grantham Institute The recent slowdown in global temperature rise has led to suggestions that global warming…
The TROPICS research cruise from Tenerife to Trinidad: Tracing oceanic processes using corals and sediments
By Torben Struve, Research Postgraduate, Department of Earth Science & Engineering and Grantham Institute for Climate Change …