Tanya O’Neill

I am an environmental soil scientist. My research focuses around understanding and minimizing human impacts of the Antarctic terrestrial environment, and I have research projects in the fields of environmental monitoring of base rebuilds; microplastics and other anthropogenic contaminants; seabirds as vectors for marine to terrestrial transfer of pollutants; and I look after a network of soil climate stations in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica.

Current research:

• Human impacts on terrestrial Antarctica
• Microplastics
• State of Antarctic environment
• Seabirds as vectors for contaminant transfer
  

Keywords: Human impacts; contamination; science-policy interactions