Posts tagged with: Team

We’re hiring! Could you be our eXXpedition Community Support?

Update: The deadline for applications for this role is 09:00 (GMT) on Monday 27th January 2020 We are looking for someone to fulfil a Community Support role to help support our eXXpedition core team, guest crew members, ambassadors and wider stakeholders.   Job Description – eXXpedition Community Support Position title: eXXpedition Community Support Purpose: To […]

Karen McCarthy Woolf – Our land based support!

eXXpedition crew are very pleased to welcome Karen McCarthy Woolf into our land-based crew in charge of our media and outreach while we sail. Karen is a poet and AHRC-funded PhD candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London whose research explores how collaborative and hybrid art forms can be used to write about nature and […]

Meet our Engineer in Residence Dr Jenna Jambeck!

We are delighted to introduce you to our Engineer in Residence Jenna. Jenna brings a wealth of expertise to eXXpedition enabling us to accurately characterise the plastic fragments we find in the ocean using nanoscale technology! Jenna is an Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia (UGA). She received her PhD […]

Maria, our Artist in Residence!

Maria is the latest addition to the crew. She graduated with a BA Hons in Fine Art from Camberwell School of Art & a Postgraduate degree in Art & Design Education from Goldsmith’s University, London. She is passionate advocate and lover of all things related to water. Maria’s work explores interactions between human manipulation of […]

Welcome aboard Constança – Our European Policy Guru on Marine Litter!

Constança graduated in marine biology in Portugal and she has been working with marine and coastal ecosystem management ever since. Holding a Masters Degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of São Paulo, her life path has led her to bridge between science, policy and society keeping sustainability at its core. She is currently living […]

Welcome aboard Jen Pate, our filmmaker!

We are delighted to confirm our filmmaker for eXXpedition. Jen has a wealth of experience on adventures and expeditions around the globe as well as the technical expertise to help us tell a great story. Thanks for jumping aboard Jen! Jen is a geographer and filmmaker fascinated by human-environment interaction. She has a BA in […]

Introducing Malin, our Nordic Climate Activist and Green Agitator!

From direct action to stop oil drilling in Norway to representing her country in International Climate negotiations, our latest recruit Malin is a girl with a global mission. Great to have you on board! Malin Jacob is a Norwegian environmentalist. Currently she is studying political science at the University of Oslo, Norway, where she is […]

Pow! Welcome aboard Caterina!

Our fabulous crew is really starting to take shape now! We are now joined by Caterina, an industrial and strategist designer, technology lover and sailor! She graduated in product and communication design at ISIA Firenze and worked at WAACS Design & Consultancy in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in Tanzania as interior designer and photographer and studied Product […]