Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
Welcome to the Meliora Podcast from the Sustainability and Resilience Institute at the University of Southampton!
This podcast explores the greatest and most wicked problem that is sustainability, whilst looking at how we are collectively addressing this critical global challenge.
Sustainability needs to be addressed by understanding how the economy, society, culture, politics and environment intersect, and this is the focus that informs each episode of the Meliora podcast.
In each episode, host Professor Simon Kemp and guest hosts are joined by a variety of guests, including academics, students, staff, researchers, alumni, community groups and business leaders.
The aim of the podcast is to shine a light on the vast range of topics surrounding sustainability and to allow listeners to learn about the critical challenges we face, as well as how they can be part of the solution. We also ensure our fantastic students have the opportunity to share their brilliant work with the world.
Podcast host: Professor Simon Kemp, Deputy Director of the Sustainability & Resilience Institute, University of Southampton
Podcast editors: Lily Killner, Sophie Green, Libby Kale, Jack Dinham, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton
Podcast communications: Hannah Parish, Alexander Ayerst, Maya Stevens, University of Southampton
Please do get in touch to discuss this podcast and any of the issues we raise by emailing sri@soton.ac.uk
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Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
A seaweed invasion: Dr Vicky Dominguez Almela and Dr Sien Van Der Plank on how Sargassum is affecting coastal communities in West Africa and the Caribbean
In this episode of the Meliora Podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute at the University of Southampton we welcome not just one, but two of our brilliant academics Dr Vicky Dominguez Almela and Dr Sien Van Der Plank to discuss their fascinating work investigating how Sargassum is affecting coastal communities in West Africa and the Caribbean. You will be thinking 'I never knew seaweed could be so interesting!'
Our chat covers Sien and Vicky's careers to date, how they became interested in sustainability, their fascinating research, links to the SRI, and how their work is having an impact across the world.
Vicky and Sien are two of our best early career academics, conducting great research and inspiring our students with their teaching. They are fantastic examples of the crucial work conducted by early-career researchers, and will be important academics working in sustainability through their careers - hopefully here with us at Southampton! We hope you enjoy this episode!
Further reading:
Victoria Dominguez Almela, Kwasi Appeaning Addo, Jack Corbett, Janice Cumberbatch, Jadu Dash, Robert Marsh, Hazel Oxenford, Thierry Tonon, Sien Van Der Plank, Mona Webber and Emma L Tompkins. 2023. Science and policy lessons learned from a decade of adaptation to the emergent risk of sargassum proliferation across the tropical Atlantic - https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/acd493 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/acd493
Episode guests: Dr Vicky Dominguez Almela and Dr Sien Van Der Plank
Episode host: Prof Simon Kemp
Episode editors: Jack Dinham and Libby Kale
Communications editors: Hannah Parish, Alexander Ayerst, Maya Stevens
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