Shungudzemwoyo Garaba does research at the Wilhelmshaven-based research group Marine Sensor Systems at ICBM. In doing so, he is particularly interested in plastic waste floating in the seas and how to determine its spatial distribution in order to eventually remove it from the oceans. Against this backdrop, he currently aims for his state doctorate. In an earlier publication, together with colleagues he had been working successfully on the basic principles for detecting floating litter by kind of an infrared “fingerprint” via drones and planes. At present, he even wants to go higher up: satellites are meant to assist in detecting the floating litter at the ocean surface.

On the occasion of a recent research publication in the scientific journal Optics Express, Ute Kehse, member of the editorial staff of the Oldenburg university press & communications department, did an interview with Garaba.

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