Amy Beukes is a EHS Social Science Researcher in the SANOCEAN research project; focusing on chemicals of emerging concern in multispecies worlds in Hout Bay, Cape Town. This research project will focus on addressing the central, overarching question framed in the CSIR (2017) report: “The critical question is whether effluent discharge through the Green Point, Camps Bay and Hout Bay outfalls is having a major adverse impact on the ecosystem functioning of the marine receiving environments and is posing a major risk to the health of humans that use and/or extract and consume resources from these environments.” by comparing the levels of selected chemicals of emerging concern in sewage outfall effluent with the levels of these chemicals found in sessile marine organisms collected from sampling sites in Hout Bay, Cape Town.