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10 Mar 2023
🎉 New research out today
🌊➡️🛰️ Although I’m a marine scientist, over the last couple of years I’ve been obsessed with space debris.
However, alongside colleagues, we noticed that there was a growing pattern. Challenges in protecting the ocean are now being reflected in orbit.
ALT A photo of the title page of a paper titled “Protect Earth’s orbit: Avoid high seas mistakes”
ALT Imogen Napper looking up to the sky at dusk. The moon appears above a cloud.
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18 Sep 2025
H.E. Razan Al Mubarak, @IUCN President shares exciting news about the inaugural IUCN Africa Pavilion at the upcoming #IUCNCongress. A platform for sharing African-led conservation solutions & a testament to the continent's leadership.
📹@dreamerwildfree
youtube.com/shorts/O35Tn8DIK…
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3 Jun 2025
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 👋
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21 May 2025
🌊🗑️🛰️ 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
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12 Apr 2025
G’day from Perth 🇦🇺
That’s a wrap on the @minderoo Indian Ocean Forum!
Bringing voices from across the Indian Ocean for a collective voice at @UN ocean Conference in June 2025
(And totally meant back to the past, although Back to the Future is my favourite film 🍿)
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10 Apr 2025
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
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25 Mar 2025
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: platform for local research
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8 Mar 2025
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
@IucnE
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Dr Imogen Napper retweeted
6 Mar 2025
Study highlights how population density and location shape litter levels, with 60% more found in coastal communities than in inland locations 🌊
plymouth.ac.uk/news/study-hi…
ALT Overall, between May and September 2021, the volunteers collected just under 28,000 items including more than 9,200 pieces of hard plastic and other fragments, 9,150 items of food wrappers and other packaging, and 6,300 pieces of cigarette-related debris, including butts and lighters.
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28 Feb 2025
🎬 🇹🇿 That’s a wrap on Regenerative Ocean Week in Dar es Salaam
A powerful week for discussing;
- Bridging science & business
- Innovators pitching ocean solutions
- Bringing local research & stories into communities
- Unlocking funding for grassroots initiatives
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25 Feb 2025
🌊🇹🇿 Day 2 of the Regenerative Ocean Week!
And what a venue to start the day!
This morning is focussed on Youth/Early Career Ocean Professionals and steps forward for the blue economy
@IUCNTanzania @OceanInnovatio1
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25 Feb 2025
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The growing debris in the global commons of our planet’s orbital space share similarities to the accumulation of plastic pollution in our oceans.
What lessons can be drawn from managing plastic debris to mitigate the impact of space debris?
Read the new #OpenAccess Review from @Imogennapper and colleagues: cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/…
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24 Feb 2025
📆🎉 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
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21 Feb 2025
📢We are 3 days away from the Regenerative Ocean Week (ROW) conference!
➡️To achieve regenerative marine ecosystem, strategic partnerships are essential.
As we open the conference, key development partners will deliver their message for the sector's dev.
#ReverseTheStripes🌊
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2 Feb 2025
🏝️ Kicking off the first ISLANDPLAS training meeting in Zanzibar!
🇲🇺🇨🇻🇰🇲🇲🇬🇸🇹🇸🇨🇹🇿
This 3-year project is focussed on 7 African Islands
It aims to enhance the livelihoods of individuals in the informal waste sector & reduce #plastic waste through local circular economy innovation
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21 Jan 2025
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President Trump says he is declaring "a national energy emergency" on his first day in office, citing energy prices as a cause of inflation.
"We will drill, baby, drill," he says.
"We will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it."
He says this will also include ending plans for the "Green New Deal" and President Biden's electric vehicle mandate.
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20 Jan 2025
🌊 Passionate about the oceans?
We are looking for a programme delivery and operations officer to join the IUCN Eastern and Southern Africa office
& you can meet the warthog outside the office
Let me know if you have any questions and take a look 👇
hrms.iucn.org/vacancy/7111?t…
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13 Jan 2025
Bye Plymouth 👋
It’s been the best 10 years, but time for a new chapter
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Dr Imogen Napper retweeted
10 Jan 2025
Scientists from the University and globally have called for action to help prevent the accumulation of space junk 🌕🚀 🗑️
plymouth.ac.uk/news/a-sustai… #SpaceJunk
ALT A new United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) aims to conserve and sustainably use Earth's orbit.
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