Pere Masqué is a professor at the School of Science at Edith Cowan University (Australia). Before he was at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) and at the Radioecology Laboratory of the International Atomic Energy Agency (Monaco). His research revolves on the study of a variety of key, global environmental processes in both the present day and geologic past, using a suite of stable and radioactive tracers as novel proxies. Main areas of research are the evaluation of the role of the oceans as a source/sink of CO2, with special emphasis on Blue Carbon; the relevance of submarine groundwater discharge in the biogeochemical cycles of the coastal and open ocean; the impact of fish-trawling in bottom sediments of the continental margins; the radiological consequences of enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials; and the impacts of the releases of artificial radioactivity in the oceans (i.e. nuclear reprocessing plants, Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents).