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Esther Mak is a postdoctoral researcher at the Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana. She earned her Ph.D. in Ocean Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she focused on the microbial ecology of nitrogen-fixing microorganisms. At SUBSEA, she applies molecular biology tools to investigate how nitrogen fixers and other microbial groups … Continued

Tully is a environmental science graduate of Colby College in Maine. His background as a seagoing oceanographic technician spans nearly 800 days at sea over eight years of mooring and instrument operations at Oregon State University and another seven at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as a member of Angel White’s lab and the Hawaiʻi … Continued

Susan Garcia is originally from San Diego, California, and completed her undergraduate degree in Biology and Chemistry at Brandeis University. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington, where she works in the Ingalls Lab studying marine microbial metabolomics.Susan’s research focuses on how phytoplankton like Thalassiosira spp. … Continued

Robert Hall is Distinguished Professor of Limnology at Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana, where he has worked since 2017. Prior to that he was on the faculty at University of Wyoming where he started in 1998. Since graduate school at University of Georgia he has been interested in aquatic carbon and nitrogen cycling. … Continued

Richelle Ellis is an expeditionary artist and analog astronaut exploring life across interconnected systems – from organisms and social structures to ecosystems and planetary networks – revealing the complexity and interdependence that bind them. She creates artworks designed for extreme and off-world environments, including works placed in international orbit, etched onto satellites, suspended by stratospheric … Continued

Ricardo M Letelier is a Professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. His research explores the response of marine pelagic microorganisms, populations, and communities to environmental perturbations and how this response affects marine biogeochemical cycles. His main areas of expertise are phytoplankton ecology and bio-optics. Letelier received his … Continued

I am a South African marine scientist whose work focuses on understanding how ocean systems function, particularly the processes that regulate nutrients, phytoplankton productivity, and the marine nitrogen cycle. I completed my PhD in Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Cape Town in 2023, during which I developed a particular interest in trying … Continued

Pierre Marrec is a Marine Research Associate at the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, with expertise in ocean biogeochemistry and plankton ecology. His research is primarily observation-based, and he has spent significant time at sea aboard research vessels. Marrec joined the OMI project in October 2024 as a part-time data manager and … Continued

Nick Hawco is a chemical oceanographer who is fascinated by life’s search for unique elements. Although they might compose only a few parts per trillion of ocean water, several metals – iron, cobalt, zinc, and manganese – remain essential for the metabolism of marine phytoplankton, animals, and bacteria. Out in the oligotrophic gyres, far from … Continued