Plastic Pollution Coalition Scientific Advisors are highly regarded professionals in their respective fields, which range from oceanography to environmental and human health to marine biology to chemistry and more. They advise our team and Coalition members on matters relevant to their area of expertise.
Abigail Barrows, MPhil
Marine Research Scientist, Adventure Scientists
College of the Atlantic & Global Microplastics Initiative
Ann Blake, Ph.D
Founder
Building Regenerative Economies
Safer Made
Arlene Blum, Ph.D
Executive Director
Green Science Policy Institute
Sandra Curtis, Ph.D
Mentor, Emerging Leaders’ Cohort
Cancer Free Economy Network’s (CFEN)
Terrence J. Collins, Ph.D.
Director
Institute for Green Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Teresa Heinz Professor of Green Chemistry
Jan Dell, P.E.
Independent Engineer
The Last Beach Cleanup
Sylvia Earle, Ph.D
Oceanographer, Explorer, Author & Lecturer
Founder, Mission Blue
Marcus Eriksen, Ph.D
Explorer & Plastic Pollution Education Specialist
Co-Founder, 5 Gyres
Rolf Halden, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Environmental Security
ASU Biodesign Institute
Jeremy Jackson, Ph.D
Professor
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Philip J. Landrigan, M.D.
Founding Director
Program in Global Public Health and the Common Good
Boston College
Manasa Mantravadi, MD
Pediatrician
Founder, AHIMSA
Pete Meyers, Ph.D.
Founder & Chief Scientist
Environmental Health News
Wallace J. Nichols, Ph.D
Marine Biologist
Chairman, California Academy of Sciences
Charles Rolsky, Ph.D
Student in Evolutionary Biology
ASU Biodesign Institute
Hideshige Takada, Ph.D
Professor of Organic Geochemistry
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Tierney Thys, Ph.D
Marine Biologist
Emerging Explorer, National Geographic
Janette Wallis, Ph.D
Primatologist
International Primatological Society