About Stephanie Andrews

Stephanie Andrews is a Climate Scientist and Systems Specialist with NexSens Technology. She read Geography at the University of Cambridge (MA Cantab), where she was also sub-editor of the Geography department’s magazine, Compass. Andrews joined the Environmental Monitor Staff in 2024, focusing on highlighting environmental monitoring efforts across the world and NexSens user stories. In her free time, she enjoys exploring new places, scuba diving, and gymnastics. 

Articles By Stephanie Andrews

A sargassum mat fills a bay in Barbados.

Earth

Sargassum Surge: How Seaweed is Transforming our Oceans and Coastal Ecosystems

Until recently, Sargassum–a free-floating seaweed–was distributed throughout the Sargasso Sea, the north Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico. But in the space of a decade, this seaweed has, as one scientist remarks, “Gone from a nonfactor to the source of a terrible crisis.” Driven by climate change, anomalous...

  • Posted March 24, 2025
Tunnel Boring Machine, "Ursula," lifted from the site at Chambers Wharf, Bermondsey.

Earth

A Drop in the Ocean: Restoring London’s Tidal Thames

The United Kingdom has grappled with wastewater management problems for decades. Although sewage treatment in the 20th century allowed many rivers, including the tidal Thames, to have healthy fish populations, combined sewer overflows into rivers–most commonly during heavy rainfall–affected water quality and occasionally even killed fish. Problems reached a...

  • Posted February 17, 2025
Orcas passing a buoy in Whangārei Harbor.

Oceans

Have You Heard? AI Buoys Revolutionizing Marine Mammal Monitoring in Whangārei Harbor, New Zealand

In one history, Whangārei Harbor, nestled in the lush hills of New Zealand’s North Island, gets its name from the Māori, “waiting for the breastbone of the whale.” It seems fitting, then, that it’s now home to state-of-the-art acoustic monitoring buoys listening for marine mammals around the clock. In...

  • Posted February 12, 2025
Remedial works underway in a freshwater habitat to shore up the banks.

Fish Science

Bringing Fish Back: Reviving Britain’s Freshwater Habitats with the Wild Trout Trust

Freshwater covers less than 1% of the Earth’s surface but has an outsized impact on global ecosystems, supporting more than 10% of all known species, reports the World Wildlife Fund. Freshwater environments such as rivers and wetlands provide significant scientific, economic, and cultural value. But pressure from climate change,...

  • Posted February 3, 2025