The Marine Debris team attended the Ending Plastic Waste Symposium 2024 (Melbourne, 6th & 7th August 2024).
On the 14th February 2024, all early- and mid-career researchers who work in the Ending Plastic Waste Mission came together for the first time at CSIRO’s Clayton facility.
The team has been busy with fieldwork during the first half of this year. This time, the team headed to Australia’s ‘Red Centre’, Alice Springs, situated in the Simpson Desert.
The project’s third and final plastic litter monitoring training and capacity building programme was held from the 19-29 February 2024 at Matabungkay Beach Hotel and Resort, Lian, Batangas.
Kathy visited the Western Philippines University main campus in Aborlan to give a seminar on ‘How data can help solve plastic pollution: Establishing a baseline of plastic litter in the Philippines’
The Project’s second plastic litter monitoring training and capacity building programme was held from the 6 – 16 November at Hue Hotels and Resorts, Puerto Princesa, Palawan.
CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, is collaborating with Plastic Free Foundation on a project in the Philippines to develop and deliver an awareness raising campaign to reduce plastic pollution.
Capacity building and survey for baseline assessment of marine litter in the coastal environment of Cambodia 2023
Capacity building and pilot survey for baseline assessment of litter in the environment in Lao PDR
Our CSIRO team collaborated with Plastic Free July to run a Plastic Free Workshop on how small individual actions can drive large-scale community changes to reduce plastic pollution.
It was with heavy hearts that we had to postpone our training event in Palawan due to weather condition.
Establishing a Baseline of Marine Plastic Litter in the Philippines - Inception Meeting (14-02-2023).
At the recent Ending Plastic Waste Symposium in Sydney (May 2023), three of the four book editors met with leaders from three of the stories highlighted in the book!
Denise, Chris, Kathy and Justine received an advance copy of their book.
Denise, TJ and Ruby are currently in Thailand for a capacity building and survey for baseline assessment of litter in the environment surrounding the Northern Gulf of Thailand.
The Marine Debris held monitoring surveys in South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania.
Denise and Justine attended the Ocean Plastic Action Forum in March 2023.
In late March, Justine Barrett traveled to Sydney for the annual Franc Stormwater Conference.
Members of the team will be attending the Ending Plastic Waste Symposium in May 2023 at Sydney. If you would like to submit an abstract for the elevator pitch and poster session please feel free to contact Caroline Bray.
In February, Denise, Kathy and Justine travelled to Manilla and Subic in the Philippines to kick-off a two year litter monitoring project.
The CSIRO marine debris team attended the 7th International Marine Debris Conference (7IMDC) this week, the world’s longest-running international conference series dedicated to the issue of marine litter and plastic pollution.
In July 2022, Denise, TJ, Lauren and Justine travelled to Phuket, Thailand to conduct training with participants from five countries (Cambodia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam).
In July 2022, Justine Barrett presented at the Tasmanian Urban Water Symposium in Hobart.
Denise was honoured to be asked to participate as a panellist in a fantastic panel event at the Swedish embassy.
In early 2022, our very own Qamar presented at TEDxHobart!
Not all scientific research is high-tech and wearing lab coats!
A team of volunteers in Indonesia are conducting inland and river litter surveys.
Finally, after years of pandemic restrictions, our PhD student Kelsey had made the trip back from the USA to Tasmania to graduate from her program.
Photo credit: Sharon Collins. Over the last couple of months TJ has been working to train up a fabulous […]
Denise and Qamar travelled to Sydney in March to launch CSIRO's Ending Plastic Waste mission.
In February 2022, Denise attended the 4th Annual Waste Strategy Summit in Sydney. She spoke about the risk-based approach our […]
Denise has been working with collaborator Joanna Vince from the University of Tasmania on plastics pollution and governance-related projects. This […]
Last week team members TJ, Justine, Denise, Chris and Noah braved the winter cold and headed out to rivers around […]
Kathy has recently left Tasmania for the sunny beaches of the USA. She is on a Fullbright scholarship experience and will […]
Congratulations to our wonderful student Kelsey Richardson who has submitted her PhD thesis on ghost fishing gear. Kelsey has faced […]
Denise and Qamar are guest editors for a 'Research on Estimating Plastic Leakage into the Environment' special issue for the […]
#SeaToSource, CSIRO and Conservation Volunteers Australia We are working with volunteers from all over Australia to survey our coastlines for […]
Kathy, a well-loved member of the marine debris family, gave her final PhD presentation yesterday after years of hard work […]
We have quantified how ocean plastic has changed over the years using the world’s longest data set of floating plastic debris.
Our very own Lauren Roman was a vital member of a recent Chinese documentary on marine plastic pollution. Part of […]
TJ was recently awarded for their work in educating others around transgender issues at CSIRO. Read on to find out […]
Denise was recently awarded the honour of being one of only four people nominated for Tasmanian Australian of the Year! […]
In August 2019, Chris was on the panel for a special plastics event organised by the US state department on […]
Over the last couple of months the team have conducted coastal debris surveys in Kenya and Seychelles in a project […]
This week our team meeting fell on one of the the first warm days of spring so we headed outside […]
