Dr Dannielle Green

Dr Dannielle Green is a Lecturer in Ecology and Director of the Applied Ecology Research Group in the School of Life Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University. She researches the impact of human activities on land, rivers, seas and oceans. She has especially studied plastic pollution (ranging from plastics bags to microplastic litter) and, more recently, the damage to plants and nature caused by discarded cigarette butts. Her work has informed policy for the United Nations, the European Union, the UK government and the Australian senate.

Dannielle also examines the impact on seas and oceans from climate change, invasive species and from urbanisation more broadly. She also explores biodiversity, biogeochemistry of marine sediments, and the ecology of the seabed. She studied for her PhD at University College Dublin - where she investigated the ecological impacts of invasive oysters. After this she won research funding from the British Ecological Society and the Irish Research Council and conducted research on climate change and plastic pollution in marine ecosystems. She is passionate about science communication and is a regular guest on BBC radio, The Naked Scientists podcast as well as participating in public outreach events such as Soapbox Science.