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Completed PhD students

• Dr Zara Botterell, Funding NERC Env East DTP, Bioavailability of microplastics to zooplankton, 2017 – 2021.
• Dr Chris Walkinshaw, Funding NERC Env East DTP, Does microplastic pollution pose a risk to marine life and food security? 2018 – 2021.
• Dr Sohvi Nuojua, Funding UK Charity and ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ, Marine Litter: Can behavioural sciences help reduce land-based waster entering the oceans? 2017 – 2021.
• Dr Imogen Napper, Funding self, Plastics in the marine environment. 2014 – 2018.
• , Funding EU Mares, Microplastic distribution and ecological interactions across latitudinal gradients, 2015 – 2018. Marine Scientist in the Caribbean.
• Dr Stephanie Wright, Funding Defra, Physical effects of microplastics on marine life. 2011 – 2015. Research assiciate UCL.
• , Funding FCT, Portugal. Microplastics in the environment. 2011– 2015. Independent Scientist, Portugal.
• Dr Nicolas Biber, Funding: Self. Distribution and effects on microplastics in the environment. 2009 – 2015 (part time).
• , PhD 2015 Monitoring microplastics in the marine environment. 2009 – 2014. Funding Defra. Now working at the Met Office in Exeter.

• Dr Kayleigh Wyles, PhD 2014 Rocky Shores: From habitat threat to marine awareness and restorative experiences. Funding NERC/ESRC. Associate Professor Lecturer in Psychology, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ.
• Dr Luke Holmes, PhD 2013, The role of plastic production pellets in the transport and availability of trace metals in the marine environment. Funding: ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Studentship. Now post doctoral research fellow at the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ.
• , PhD 2008, Environmental consequences of microscopic plastics in marine habitats, Funding: Leverhulme Trust. Now Senior Research Associate University of NEW South Wales, Australia.

Former research staff

• – now lecturer in Analytical Chemistry University of Surrey.
• Dr Ana Catarino – RealRiskNano project.
• Dr Stephen Summers – working on the RealRiskNano project – now at Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering.
• Dr Anna Sanchez-Vidal – University of Barcelona.
• – worked on the Marlisco project – now a research fellow at the University of Greenwich.
• – worked on ME 5416: Potential for microplastics to cause harm in the marine environment funded by Defra NOW at CEFAS.
• Dr Stewart Niven

UK Collaborators

• Pennie Lindeque, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK

International Collaborators

• Anthony Andrady, North Carolina, USA
• Dr Amy Lusher, Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Norway
• Rachel W Obbard, Dartmouth, USA
• Dr Anna Sanchez-Vidal, Barcelona, Spain
• Martin Thiel, Chile