Professor Mona Webber is a Marine Biologist and Ecologist whose primary research area is in Tropical Marine Zooplankton: their production, community structure and distribution, as well as their use as indicators of water quality. She is also the James S. Moss Solomon Jr. Chair in Environment (2016 - present). Prof. Webber and her students have compiled and documented information on the biodiversity associated with mangrove areas and the essential role that mangrove ecosystems play in protecting coastlines, especially during natural disasters, and their valuable contribution to sustainable economic activities. She has supervised over 30 graduate students and a large number of undergraduate research projects. Her current research involves assessing the carbon in mangrove forests, assessing the effect of microplastics on the marine environment and exploring the benefits to be derived by developing countries in the Caribbean and Western Africa from sargassum.