Advisory Board
The Plastics & Climate Project benefits from the input of advisory board members who ensure the scientific integrity of the Project's work and provide strategic advice. The Advisory Board also enables people and institutions engaged in complementary issues to add value to each other's work.
Co-Founder & Co-Director, The Descendants Project
Organization dedicated to preserving and improving the health, land, economy, and lives of the Black descendant community in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley."
Research professor of oceanography,
Sea Education Association
Research areas include ocean circulation, distribution of marine plastic debris, and degradation and fate of plastics in the ocean.
Oceanographer, research scientist, Center for Marine Debris and Hawaii Pacific University
One of the first scientists to discover that plastic emits greenhouse gases when exposed to sunlight.
Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources & Security, University of Wollongong
Key architect of the UN global plastics treaty research and proposal; co-author Climate Impact of Plastics, GRID-Arendal, 2024; contributing author of The Plastics & Climate Project's report.
Professor of environmental politics,
University of California Santa Barbara
Research includes climate change, renewable energy, water, and chemicals policy; named on TIME100 Next and as one of Business Insider’s top 30 global leaders working toward climate solutions.
Co-founder & former Science Director,
The Plastics & Climate Project,
Plastics pollution researcher at Canada's Memorial University, member of the UNEP/EC Working Group developing a toolkit to identify sources of plastic pollution.
