Person: Howard Mendlovitz

Howard Mendlovitz is a Research Engineer in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and works closely with Prof. Chris Martens on deep-sea measurements. Howard graduated from North Carolina State University with B.S. in Chemical Engineering, as well as a minor in Computer Sciences. Howard has been developing … Continued

Person: Jens Greinert

Jens Greinert is a Professor and researcher at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany and heads the Deep Sea Monitoring Research Unit. Jens completed his Ph.D. studies at GEOMAR and Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel and spent 8 years working in New Zealand, Belgium, and the Netherlands before returning to GEOMAR in 2013. In … Continued

Person: Amanda Demopoulos

Amanda Demopoulos is a Research Benthic Ecologist for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at the Wetland and Aquatic Research Center in Gainesville, Florida. She received her Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and completed postdoctoral work with Lisa Levin at Scripps Institute of Oceanography.  Amanda has a long history working … Continued

Person: Alex Demas

Alex Demas is a public affairs specialist at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Alex received a Master’s degree in environmental science and policy from American University and now covers outreach and communications for the Energy and Minerals Mission at the USGS. Alex routinely works with USGS researchers to share the agency’s scientific findings and activities … Continued

Person: Bill Danforth

Bill Danforth is a marine geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Woods Hole, MA. Bill’s career has focused on the advances in the technology and techniques used to collect, analyze, and publish marine remote sensing data.  Over the past 30 years, Bill has participated in dozens of cruises to collect, conduct quality assurance … Continued

Person: Michael Casso

Michael Casso is a physical scientist at US Geological Survey (USGS) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and works primarily with the Geochemistry Laboratory that supports the USGS Gas Hydrates Project. He received his BA in geology from Hamilton College and has worked with the USGS for more than two decades on geochemical environmental monitoring and sediment … Continued

Publication: Stewart, L., Algar, C., Fortunato, C., Larson, B., Vallino, J., Huber, J., Butterfield, D., and J. Holden. (2019). Fluid geochemistry, local hydrology, and metabolic activity define methanogen community size and composition in deep-sea hydrothermal vents.  The ISME Journal, doi: 10.1038/s41396-019-0382-3. 

Stewart, L., Algar, C., Fortunato, C., Larson, B., Vallino, J., Huber, J., Butterfield, D., and J. Holden. (2019). Fluid geochemistry, local hydrology, and metabolic activity define methanogen community size and composition in deep-sea hydrothermal vents.  The ISME Journal, doi: 10.1038/s41396-019-0382-3.

Person: Tim Weiss

Tim Weiss is a software engineer and technician in the “Deep Sea Monitoring Group” at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, where he has worked since 2013. Tim spent six years in the German Navy as an electronic technician before studying at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden. He has also … Continued

Person: Sarah Seabrook

An avid ocean explorer, Sarah searches for life in areas of the ocean that have never before been seen by the human eye. Her passions lie in researching the dynamics of habitats fueled by chemicals, instead of the sun, and in thinking of how these habitats relate to the possibility of life on other planets. … Continued

Person: Kishan Munroe

Kishan Munroe is a documentarian and multidisciplinary artist whose practice comprises painting, drawing, photography, film, installation art and engineering. Fortified by a framework of extensive historical analysis he uses his structures, documentary footage and the composition of visual commentary as catalysts for social consciousness of underexplored narratives. Munroe, an avid explorer, frequently engages in anthropological … Continued