You can contact Erik on subjects like:

• Plastic soup
• Marine debris
• Ocean currents
• Public Engagement and Science Communication

International media

See http://topios.org/#media for an overview of some of the media mentions of Erik and specifically his Tracking Of Plastic In Our Oceans (TOPIOS) project, for which he also won the first ERC Public Engagement with Research Award in the category Press & media relations.

Outreach and Engagement highlights

• Public lectures about plastic in the ocean at the Royal Geographic Society, the Bluedot music festival in Manchester, the Being Human Festival in Southampton, the London Design Biennale, and the Betweter Festival in Utrecht.
• Briefings on ocean plastic pollution for UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee, as well as organisations including the Green Alliance, Greenpeace, WWF, ASC, Triodos Bank, Shell.
• Initiator, designer and developer of websites uu.nl/plasticsoep, www.plasticadrift.org, www.adrift.org.au and www.plastinography.org, a set of science and outreach tools where the general public can virtually track plastic waste through the ocean. Websites attracted more than 200,000 visitors in two years.
• Featured scientist in an episode of Klokhuis on the plastic soup.
• Author of more than a dozen opinion articles for outlets including the Conversation, Guardian, British Council, NRC, Euractiv, and Geographic Magazine.
• More than 250 interviews on climate change, ocean plastic pollution and the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, including for CNN (20 times), BBC (10 times), Dutch NPO television (5 times), the New York Times (4 times), the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, NRC, Volkskrant, Science, the Discovery Channel, AP, Reuters, AFP, as well as Australian and Dutch media.

Columns in DUB

• 6 June 2024 - The authentic scientist - Scientists vs populists
• 15 May 2024 - Be picky - Let's do away with journals' special issues
• 18 March 2024 - Meet the professor - Stuur de professoren naar KLM (in Dutch)

Utrecht University news 

• 17 May 2023 - Stand up for the ocean. Read Erik van Sebille’s inaugural lecture
• 23 Feb 2023 - Seven Utrecht-based researchers receive Vici grant
• 18 Nov 2022 - “RDM Support added a unique feature to the OceanParcels code. That’s how we reeled in funding for a new project”
• 14 June 2022 - Interview: science with and for society
• 5 April 2022 - The global 'plastic flood' reaches the Arctic
• 1 November 2021 - Erik van Sebille appointed as Professor of Oceanography & Public Engagement
• 29 July 2021 - Wave of new Wikipedia articles by oceanography students
• 10 May 2021 - Where has all the plastic gone?
• 31 August 2020 - Erik van Sebille wins the Agnites Vrolik Prize for his research into plastic-free oceans
• 28 July 2020 - Galapagos Plastic Free
• 7 July 2020 - Erik van Sebille wins first ERC Public Engagement with Research Award
• 17 March 2020 - Making the Galapagos islands plastic-free again
• 3 March 2020 - Longread about open science: The new normal
• 20 February 2020 - "Where can we expect roadblocks and pitfalls on the road to a radically open science?"
• 20 December 2019 - Three Utrecht geoscientists honoured at AGU 2019
• 7 November 2019 - Publi Prize winners use their award budget creatively
• 23 October 2019 - "We need to solve the Plastic Soup together: science, the government, and you and me"
• 17 September 2019 - Erik van Sebille on using the ocean as a drain for radioactive wastewater
• 27 August 2019 - Erik van Sebille wins James B. Macelwane medal
• 1 June 2019 - 7 myths about ‘plastic soup’
• 14 January 2019 - "The disaster of MSC Zoe is a golden opportunity for oceanographers"
• 7 May 2019 - "Our code has been developed to be used by anyone in the world" 
• 8 January 2019 - Erik van Sebille and Niko Wanders share Publi Prize
• 22 November 2018 - Erik van Sebille joins the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 25 July 2018 - "The fight against plastic soup needs its own 'climate panel'"
• 13 June 2018 - Erik van Sebille and the Plastic Soup
• 13 October 2017 - What's the harm of one single plastic bag in the Oudegracht? (in Dutch)
• 27 September 2017 - Music meets science in ‘Music by Oceans’
• 19 april 2017 - Large quantities of floating plastic pollution from Europe and US in Artic Ocean
• 17 March 2017 - "We don’t know what happens to 99% of the plastic that ends up in the ocean."
• Everything about the plastic soup (website) 

Scientific expeditions

2004 – 2014 A total of twenty-two weeks of scientific expeditions, on board six different research vessels, to the North Atlantic, Indian and Southern Oceans.