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Sarah Nelms

PhD Student



Contact Details

san20/01/2020 23:05:40@pml.ac.uk

I am a PhD student at Plymouth Marine Laboratory and the University of Exeter. My research interests lie broadly in understanding the pathways by which anthropogenic activities may affect marine biodiversity, particularly marine megafauna.

For my PhD I am investigating the abundance and distribution of marine litter around the British coast, examining the digestive tracts of marine mammals for the presence of microplastics, and exploring the transfer of these particles throughout marine food webs.

 

Selected key publications

 

Nelms, S.E., Barnett, J., Brownlow, A., Davison, N.J., Deaville, R., Galloway, T.S., Lindeque, P.K., Santillo, D., Godley, B.J., 2019. Microplastics in marine mammals stranded around the British coast: ubiquitous but transitory? Scientific Reports, 9, art: 1075. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-37428-3

   

Nelms, SE; Galloway, TSG; Godley, BJ; Jarvis, DS; Lindeque, PK. 2018 Investigating microplastic trophic transfer in marine top predators. Environmental Pollution. 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.02.016

   

Nelms, SE; Coombes, C; Foster, LC; Godley, BJ; Galloway, TSG; Lindeque, PK; Witt, MJ. 2017 Marine anthropogenic litter on British beaches: a 10-year nationwide assessment using citizen science data. Science of the Total Environmnet. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.137

   

Nelms, SE; Duncan, EM; Broderick, AC; Galloway, TSG; Godfrey, MH; Hamann, M; Lindeque, PK; Godley, BJ. 2016 Plastic and marine turtles: a review and call for research. ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil, 73 (2). 165-181. 10.1093/icesjms/fsv165

   

Nelms SE, Piniak WED, Weir C, Godley BJ (2016) Seismic surveys and marine turtles: an underestimated global threat? Biological Conservation, 193, 49-65. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.10.020

Other activities

  • Member of PML Environment and Sustainability Committee