Recent posts
A physicist’s odyssey through puzzling paperwork
By Nieske Vergunst To help park rangers on the Galapagos Islands clean up plastic that washes up on shore, Stefanie Ypma (postdoc at IMAU) uses floating ...
Pandemic, Plastics and Politicians: room for environmental action from your own home
By Johanna Bürkert @BuerkertJohanna With the all too well-known virus and alongside side effects dominating the news, it is sometimes easy to ...
Conference confessions and digital digestions
I’m running through a huge hallway. Some doors are closed, others open. People standing crammed in a little corner trying to hear and see what is ...
Musings over morning tea: litter, law and light.
By Johanna Bürkert @BuerkertJohanna As the days get shorter and the leaves begin to fall, I can’t help but longingly think about the beach ...
Weekend of Science – Utrecht University event
The journey of a plastic dot
A quick search through your garbage bin at home will likely tell you, unsurprisingly, that a lot of your waste consists of plastic. These pieces all have a ...
From a clean beach to a clean ocean
Summer in the Netherlands. Sometimes it is extremely humid and cloudy, many times it rains, but there are these days that are just genuinely nice. On these ...
Webinar on World Nature Conservation Day for donors
On Tuesday the 28th of July, Erik van Sebille and Stefanie Ypma hosted a webinar to share the first results on the Galapagos Plastic Free project. Invited ...
A welcome to the Galapagos Islands from behind our home desks
Done my morning yoga, whistled at my parakeet, put on my slippers and took a cup of tea upstairs to my ‘office’. A very normal start of the day in these ...