Beth Polidoro, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Marine Conservation in the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences at Arizona State University (ASU). She also serves as the Associate Director of ASU’s Center for Biodiversity Outcomes and is co-Chair of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Species Survival Commissions’ Marine Fishes and Reef-Building Corals specialist groups. Her primary research interests are in risk assessment and applied toxicology within the context of marine and freshwater biodiversity conservation, human health, and international development. Dr. Polidoro has a broad background in the marine, chemical, and environmental sciences. Before coming to ASU’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences in 2012, she was a Senior Research Associate with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), where she collaborated with scientists around the globe to quantify the impacts of anthropogenic threats on more than 20,000 marine species for inclusion on the . Currently, she works on various marine and freshwater conservation initiatives and risk assessments in the United States, Latin America, Asia, and Oceania. Her current research projects involve the development of ecological and public health risk assessments for microplastics and other contaminants in aquatic environments, pollution vulnerability indices for marine species and ecosystems, and new methodologies to detect and assess the impacts of pollution on marine biodiversity and human communities across the globe. She also supports a long-term monitoring project for microplastics and associated pollutants in aquatic resources and recreationally-caught fish in metro Phoenix, USA.