Mr. Peter Kershaw
Chair of the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environment (GESAMP)
Peter Kershaw is a marine scientist based in the UK, with 34 years research experience, based, until 2014, in a Government-funded research laboratory (Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science), on many different aspects of marine environmental protection. This involved contributing to, and leading, multi-disciplinary research projects on the impacts of human activities on the ocean, usually with European or wider international collaborators. Topics have include the transport, fate and effects of radionuclides, metals, nutrients, organic contaminants and plastic litter; the impact of offshore activities such as fisheries and windfarm development; and an interest in socio-ecological systems for the sustainable management human activities.
Peter became involved with GESAMP (Joint Group of Experts on Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection) in 2008, and has been Chair since 2013. He has been co-Chair of Working Group 40 (Sources, fate and effects of microplastics in the marine environment – a global assessment) since 2012. He currently splits his time between GESAMP and working as an independent consultant.
Peter became involved with GESAMP (Joint Group of Experts on Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection) in 2008, and has been Chair since 2013. He has been co-Chair of Working Group 40 (Sources, fate and effects of microplastics in the marine environment – a global assessment) since 2012. He currently splits his time between GESAMP and working as an independent consultant.