Taylor Maddalene’s background is in marine ecology, conservation, and science communication, working on projects around the globe with organizations such as National Geographic, NOAA, and Rare. Her current research focuses on the impacts of plastic pollution on coastal ecosystem health and tying human behavior and waste management infrastructure on land with what we find in the ocean.
She is currently a PhD Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant in the Jambeck Research Group in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. She is also the Director of the Circularity Assessment Protocol at the Circularity Informatics Lab at the University of Georgia. Taylor received her Bachelors in Environmental Science from the University of Virginia and her Masters in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
