Dr Imogen Napper

Bonjour, Nice! 🇫🇷

Excited to celebrate science progress at the One Ocean Science Congress and then leap into the United Nations Ocean Conference

If joining, let’s catch up 👋

📺 You can watch the evidence session here:

parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/57…

🌊🗑️🛰️ A new life highlight: telling UK Parliament we’re living in a litter sandwich

Plastic below in the ocean, debris above in Earth’s orbit.

I shared how:
1. We need space literacy
2. Prevention > clean-up
3. We must act fast, before we repeat old mistakes

🦺How can we ensure a safe operating environment in space❓

📢Today at 3:35pm, the Committee will hold an oral evidence session on space debris with
⭐Prof Don Pollacco, Warwick University
⭐Prof Hugh Lewis @unisouthampton.bsky.social
⭐Dr Imogen Napper @imogennapper.bsky.social, @plymuni.bsky.social

@minderoo.bsky.social Indian Ocean Forum 🇦🇺

Building a collective Indian Ocean voice for the United Nations Ocean Conference

Key takeaways:

1️⃣ Capacity sharing not capacity building

2️⃣ Better ways to communicate science

3️⃣ Parachute science, breaking barriers & supporting local knowledge

Are you looking for paid research experience? Check out these opportunities from NERC. Number 14 is plankton!

nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/programme/re...

Edinburgh Ocean Leaders 2025 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

48 people from 30 countries, sharing experiences and supporting each other navigating ocean careers

A week of feeling grounded in a pretty bonkers world

2025 = Ocean Year

🇹🇿 Regenerative Ocean Week: 300+ people aimed at turning science→solutions

🌊 First regional High Seas Treaty Workshop: 105 ppl, 14 Govs

♻️ ISLANDPLAS launch: circular econ. of plastics for islands

⛵️ Great Blue Wall expedition ODISEA launch: new platform for local research

SkyTruth: Exposing a dark reality spilling into our seas Slicks, pipeline leaks, discharges, spills - chronic oil comes from many sources. We spoke to John Amos, CEO of SkyTruth, on using tech to expose the truth.

🗺️ Our new map reveals Big Oil's pollution using govt data. But did you know we can also track these spills from #space? 🛰️ Satellite technology can help expose chronic oil leaks & spills, as explained by SkyTruth CEO John Amos ⬇️

What a welcome to the Seychelles! 🇸🇨

We have joined the Odisea boat during a section of their Great Blue Wall expedition

The boat is providing a platform for local scientists to come onboard and conduct research in remote areas

Citizen science reveals litter trends in the UK: Population density effects on coastal and inland regions There is limited understanding of how litter abundance, particularly plastic items, varies between coastal and inland regions with different populatio…

🚨 New paper by @imogennapper.bsky.social Richard Thompson and others 👇

Citizen science reveals litter trends in the UK: Population density effects on coastal and inland regions

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#CitizenScience
#PlasticPollution
#Wastemanagement
#Plastic

🎬 That’s a wrap on Regenerative Ocean Week

A powerful week to discuss:

- Bridging science & business

- Innovators pitching ocean solutions

- Bringing local research & stories into communities

- Unlocking funding for grassroots initiatives

🇹🇿 Hosted around the beautiful coast of Dar es Salaam

‼️ EXPOSED: Oil companies are using UK seas as a dumping ground, harming wildlife & poisoning marine protected areas.

Enough is enough. We're challenging the latest oil & gas licences in court next month. Watch this space. The end of #BigOil’s reign is drawing near.

📆🎉 Welcome to the first day of the Regenerative Ocean Week based in Dar es Salaam 🇹🇿

The theme is ‘Science to Solution’

A room full of politicians, scientists, innovators and conservationists all aimed to help the ocean thrive

🎤 You can find me today mixing the tech deck

🏝️ Kicking off the first ISLANDPLAS training meeting in Zanzibar!

🇲🇺🇨🇻🇰🇲🇲🇬🇸🇹🇸🇨🇹🇿
This three-year project is focussed on seven African Islands

It aims to enhance the livelihoods of individuals in the informal waste sector & reduce #plastic waste through local circular economy innovation

Programme Delivery and Operations Officer, Coastal and Ocean Resilience, Nairobi ESARO - Coastal and Ocean Programme. Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office, Nairobi, Kenya

🌊 Passionate about the oceans?

We are looking for a programme delivery and operations officer to join the IUCN Eastern and Southern Africa office

This would be in a deputy regional head role

Let me know if you have any questions and take a look 👇

hrms.iucn.org/vacancy/7111...

Chunky warthog on walk to work 🐗

#nairobi

Bye Plymouth 👋

It’s been the best 10 years, but time for a new chapter

The piece aims to look at the problem differently and to spark conversation

We can learn from lessons of the past 👏

@heatherkoldewey.bsky.social
@thomasdowling.bsky.social

Earth’s orbit is overlooked and not even mentioned in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Orbital debris is on the rise ⬆️

To bridge the gap, we brought together scientists, satellite reps, educators, and traditional knowledge specialists

A sustainable development goal for space: Applying lessons from marine debris to manage space debris Lessons from managing marine debris can guide solutions for orbital debris. This paper advocates for improvements to extended producer responsibility, international legislation, innovative mitigation measures, and a proposed UN Sustainable Development Goal to ensure the safe and sustainable use of Earth’s orbit, protecting this vital global commons.

🌊 🛰️ Our oceans and orbits have something in common: both are filling up with debris

Our new paper in One Earth @cp-oneearth.bsky.social ( funded by National Geographic), explores how ocean conservation lessons can guide the sustainable use of space 🧵

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Working with @imogennapper.bsky.social, we call for a sustainable development goal for Earth's orbit. Don't repeat the mistakes of the ocean... a global commons should not be left as a free-for-all.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

A sustainable development goal for space: Applying lessons from marine debris to manage space debris Lessons from managing marine debris can guide solutions for orbital debris. This paper advocates for improvements to extended producer responsibility, international legislation, innovative mitigation measures, and a proposed UN Sustainable Development Goal to ensure the safe and sustainable use of Earth’s orbit, protecting this vital global commons.

Powerful insights from this astonishing research on the elephant in the room…led by @imogennapper.bsky.social 💫☄️

www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Insights from our National Geographic / Lindblad Expedition funded UK & Ireland fieldwork inspired this guide.

Let us know what you think / any additions!

@aucklanduni.bsky.social

🏖️ Check out our open-access Field Guide for using drones to monitor plastic pollution on beaches

Whether you’re using hobbyist drones or advanced tech, this handbook aims to make the methodology more accessible

🎯 More data = more targeted solutions

tinyurl.com/bdz9ms57