Discussing strategies for inspiring and enabling behavioural change: engaging hard to reach demographics and include in the conversation around plastic pollution

Well the votes are in from the audience here on what is the main cause of marine litter Interreg FCE I am not sure I agree entirely, but the key point is we all have a role and by working together that we can fix this global environmental challenge !

Congratulations Danielle Marchant Ana Martínez and Pascaline Francelle wonderful to see your collective hard work come to fruition 👏👏

🚨Paper alert!🚨 Check out our new paper lead by yizhu zhu on the deviation of Conrad’s idealised 1:1 ratio in #anoxic sediments and the implication on rising temperatures on #methane production. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1002/lol2.1…

Have you ever wondered how freshwater insect emergence 🦟changes across latitude and what is the role of climate☀️🌧️? Check out this new global meta-analysis by brilliant Liam N. Nash, with Pablo Antiqueira, Chris Carbone, Gustavo Q Romero, Lucas Zorzetti. Thanks to The Royal Society; QM_SBBS

Prof Kate Spencer (Kate L Spencer) is on BBC Panorama today at 8pm. Kate discusses her research on the toxic legacies of historic coastal landfill sites. You might catch Stuart Grieve Shudan Xue and Dr Tom Kelly too. Watch live or on-demand via iPlayer: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Thrilled that Preventing Plastic Pollution has won "Excellent interdisciplinary research project" at the Queen Mary University of London Research and and Innovation Award 2023 🏆 Thanks to all the partners and collaborators who have contributed over the past 3 years, also project funder @ChannelManche

Our team have been working to #BeatPlasticPollution for the past three years as lead partner in the Preventing Plastic Pollution Project 💪 Discover our work 👉 bit.ly/ppp_rivcomms #WorldEnvironmentDay #PreventingPlasticPollution Interreg FCE QM_SBBS

To mark #WorldOceanDay2023 🌊, we're promoting FCE project Preventing Plastic Pollution Preventing Plastic Pollution's guidance pack detailing some of the findings and results from its three-years of work tackling #PlasticPollution from source to sea: preventingplasticpollution.com/preventing-pla…

Only 3 days to go - this is going to be such a rubbish night out! Come and listen to Oli Franklin-Wallis talk about wasteland - an eye opening read that’ll make you question the contents of your bin and charity bag. I might say a bit about #historiclandfill QMUL School of Geography Queen Mary Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

This week's Better Water Quality for Wales conference features talks by several UKCEH scientists incl. Mike Bowes on algal blooms in rivers, Bridget Emmett discussing ERAMMP and a trio from FreshwaterQuality epwales.org.uk/events/better-… Environment Platform Wales Amy Pickard Daniel Read

📚The Biology and Ecology of Streams and Rivers by Alan Hildrew and Paul Giller is an excellent read for anyone interested in river ecosystems 👏 🔗bit.ly/3CTgin2 Save 30% on the cover price with code: ASPROMP8 #RunningWaters #EcologyMatters

Who's excited for our next Sustainable Business Network event?!🥳 We're delighted to invite you to the LUSH Green Hub in Poole on 13th July - it's going to be a fantastic evening so make sure you get your tickets today! eventbrite.co.uk/e/sustainable-… youtube.com/watch?v=yCyUL6…

Our just-published paper in nature finds that river invertebrate diversity across Europe has generally increased over the past 6 decades (👍) but that the recovery has slowed to halt of late (👎). nature.com/articles/s4158… QM_SBBS Queen Mary University of London

River Communities Group @ QMUL are very grateful to Peter Haase and Ellen Welti (SENCKENBERG) for their hard work in bringing this Europe-wide collaboration together. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our team has returned after a tough week of surveying Scottish lochs for the Upland Waters Monitoring Network UK Upland Waters Zooplankton, eDNA, aquatic plants, temperature & O2 profiles, sediment all done. QM_SBBS UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

This useful and free guide also includes information on how to recognise and create living space for aquatic insects!

Well done Dr Marchant!