Dr Hartl is an Associate Professor of Marine Biology, specializing in Marine Ecotoxicology in the Centre for Marine Biodiversity & Biotechnology (CMBB), Institute of Life and Earth Sciences, at Heriot-Watt University. He is also Director of the CMBB and Director of Studies for the MSc cluster in Marine, Environment and Climate Change (shttp://www.hw.ac.uk/marinemsc). Dr Hartl represents the Marine Alliance for Science & technology, Scotland (MASTS) on the Scottish Government’s Marine Litter Advisory Group Steering Committee and leads the MASTS Stressors Forum (http://www.masts.ac.uk/research/research-forums/marine-stressors-forum/). He received an MSc from the University of Vienna (1996) in Biology (Zoology/Marine Ecology) and a PhD from the University of Southampton (2000). Following a Postdoctoral Fellowship at University College Cork (2001-2006), he took up a position as Lecturer in the School of Life Sciences at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He was president of the Physiology Section of the American Fisheries Society (2010-2012) and served on the Environmental Pollution Review Panel for FORMAS (2011-2014).

Latest Papers:

Wale M, Briers RA, Hartl MGJ, Bryson D, Diele K. in press. From DNA to Ecological Performance: Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on a Reef-Building Mussel. Sci Total Environ 689:126-132

Hartl, M. (2018) Why Climate Change is Making Pollution Monitoring More Difficult

Connell, S., Fernandes, T. F., Hartl, M. G. J. (2017). Climate change: implications for ecotoxicological environmental impact assessment. JEE. 143.

Latest Citations: h-index (Google Scholar): 16

24 June 2019

Blumenröder J, Sechet P, Kokkonen J, Hartl MGJ. 2017. Microplastic contamination of intertidal sediments of Scapa Flow, Orkney: a first assessment. Mar Pollut Bull 130:293-302.

cited by

Wu N, Zhang Y, Zhang X, Zhao Z, He J, Li W, Ma Y, Niu Z. 2019. Occurrence and distribution of microplastics in the surface water and sediment of two typical estuaries in Bohai Bay, China. Environ Sci Pocess Impacts.

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19 June 2019

Stone V, Pozzi-Mucelli S, Tran L, Aschberger K, Sabella S, Vogel UB, Poland C, Balharry D, Fernandes T, Gottardo S, Hankin S, Hartl MGJ, Hartmann N, Hristozov D, Hund-Rinke K, Johnston H, Marcomini A, Panzer O, Roncato D, Saber AT, Wallin H, Scott-Fordsmand JJ. 2014. ITS-NANO - Prioritising nanosafety research to develop a stakeholder driven intelligent testing strategy Part Fibre Toxicol 11.

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Connolly M, Zhang Y, Mahri S, Brown DM, Ortuño N, Jordá-Beneyto M, Maciaszek K, Stone V, Fernandes TF, Johnston HJ. 2019. The influence of organic modification on the cytotoxicity of clay particles to keratinocytes, hepatocytes and macrophages; an investigation towards the safe use of polymer-clay nanocomposite packaging. Food Chem Toxicol 126:178-191.

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17 June 2019

Blumenröder, J., Sechet, P., Kokkonen, J. and Hartl, M. G. J. (2017). Microplastic contamination of intertidal sediments of Scapa Flow, Orkney: a first assessment. Mar Pollut Bull. 130, 293-302.

cited by

Townsend KR, Lu H-C, Sharley DJ, Pettigrove V. 2019. Associations between microplastic pollution and land use in urban wetland sediments. Environ Sci Pollut Res.

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