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Christopher Pham is a Research Associate at the Okeanos Institute for Marine Sciences, University of the Azores, with over 15 years of experience studying human impacts on deep-sea ecosystems and plastic pollution. He currently leads the Azores Marine Litter Laboratory and has authored 85 peer-reviewed publications. He is an active member of several international expert groups focused on marine pollution and deep-sea ecology, and has served as Chair of the ICES Working Group on Marine Litter (WGML). Throughout his career, he has contributed as both principal investigator and collaborator on numerous national and international research projects, and he is actively engaged in science-policy initiatives.
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Ryota Nakajima is a biological oceanographer with interests in the fate and impacts of plastic debris in deep-sea environments. He conducts extensive surveys of the seafloor litter across Japan using deep-sea exploration vehicles such as Shinkai 6500.