Heidi Acampora

In 2012, Heidi was a masters student assessing the impacts of plastic ingestion by Short-tailed Shearwater birds. She also helped at the Moreton Bay Research Station with their ‘Turtles in Trouble’ project necropsying seaturtles for marine debris research.

Heidi has since completed a PhD and a postdoc in Ireland (Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology) and continues to research seabirds impacted by marine debris.