Dr Mark Hartl

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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).

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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

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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): 17

17 September

Echavarri-Bravo V, Paterson L, Aspray TJ, Porter JS, Winson MK, Thornton B, Hartl MGJ. 2015. Shifts in the metabolic function of a benthic estuarine microbial community following a single pulse exposure to silver nanoparticles. Environ Pollut 201:91-99.

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Feng J-n, Guo X-p, Chen Y-r, Lu D-p, Niu Z-s, Tou F-y, Hou L-j, Xu J, Liu M, Yang Y. 2020. Time-dependent effects of ZnO nanoparticles on bacteria in an estuarine aquatic environment. Sci Total Environ 698:134298.

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23 August 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.

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Jahan S, Strezov V, Weldekidan H, Kumar R, Kan T, Sarkodie SA, He J, Dastjerdi B, Wilson SP. 2019. Interrelationship of microplastic pollution in sediments and oysters in a seaport environment of the eastern coast of Australia. 695:133924.

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13 August 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.

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Dowarah K, Devipriya SP. 2019. Microplastic prevalence in the beaches of Puducherry, India and its correlation with fishing and tourism/recreational activities. Mar Pollut Bull 148:123-133.