June 2019: Latest paper published in Science of the total Environment [link]
press coverage on latest paper
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April 2019: Dr Hartl presents his work on microplasticas and discusses the merits of monitoring programmes
at the ECSA 2019 meeting at Heriot-Watt university, Edinburgh [link]
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February 2019: PhD students Ed Bolger and Craig Stenton featured on Blue Planet UK presenting their
woek on Noise and multistressor ecotoxicology work (about 40 mins in) - iPlayer Link
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February 2019: Dr Mark Hartl comments live on Sky News on the Deep Ocean Live coverage - link
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February 2019: PhD student Craig Stenton presenting his workon the effects of noise
on the ecotoxicological responses in Nephrops norvegicus at Scotland's International
Marine Conference, 20-21 February, 2019, Glasgow.
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January 2019: Dr Hartl attended a Microplastics Workshop at University College Cork, Ireland, and
presented his work on monitoring microplastics in marine intertidal sediments.
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October 2018: Dr Angela Capper (ICIT-Orkney) presenting our latest microplastics research in Orkney.
PhD student Craig Stenton presenting his research on multiple stressors
MSc student Zoe Lawrence presenting her research on microplastics distribution in a mussel bed.
PhD student Glenn Jessen presenting his research on climate change and ecotoxicology
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September 2018: PhD student, Ed Bolger, presents his work on noise as a stressor in invertebrate development at the EMBS53 in Ostend
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May 2018: Dr Hartl discusses the significance of long-term microplastics monitoring in the marine environment
for evidence-based policy decisions.
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March 2018: Dr Hartl welcomes the deposit return scheme for plastic bottles announced by Michael Gove and points out that
Scotland announced a scheme in September 2017.
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March 2018: Dr Hartl presents his microplatics monitoring work in the Firth of Forth at the
Procupine Marine Natural History Meeting 2018 at the National Museum Scotland.
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February 2018: Dr Hartl's research on microplastics in Orkney and the Firth of Forth cited twice during the
recent debate in the Scottish Parliament - link to the debate
Here's a link to the relevant paper.Here's a link to the relevant paper.
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January 2018: Media coverage of our microplastic work in Orkney; above BBC Scotland - Reporting Scotland and STV News at Six, 19th January, 2018.
Below:
Coverage through the day in news bulletins on BBC Radio Scotland
Coverage in the print media:
The Times
The Herald
The Orcadian
The Scotsman
Financial Times
February 2018
The Orkney News
