Person: Steve Romaine

Steve Romaine is the head of the Water Properties Group at the Institute of Ocean Sciences, which provides oceanographic support to research missions in the Pacific and Arctic regions. This includes sampling protocols for dissolved oxygen, nutrients, salinities, and electronic measurements using CTD units. Steve has a M.Sc. in biological oceanography from the University of … Continued

Person: Matt McIlvin

Dr. Matt McIlvin is an analytical chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution working in the Saito lab. On this cruise he will be helping with trace metal rosette, CTD, and large volume pump deployments to collect samples for metaproteomics and trace metals analysis. Matt received his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of … Continued

Person: Albert J. Noh

Albert J. Noh is a physical oceanographer who study about turbulent mixing and internal waves in the ocean. He has been researching a mechanism of turbulent mixing in the equatorial Pacific, using CTD, LADCP, and Micro-structure profiler data. He has some experiences at international joint cruise; MIXET cruise, Korea-Russia joint cruise. He likes doing exercise; … Continued

Person: Chang-Su Hong

Chang-Su Hong is a research scientist for the Physical Oceanography Division at the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST). His primary responsibilities are field observation and basic data processing. He specializes in operating various instruments such as the microstructure profiler, CTD and ADCP. He has participated in many survey cruises in the western … Continued

Person: Sofia Ramalho

Sofia P. Ramalho is a Junior Researcher at the Department of Biology and Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) at the University of Aveiro (Portugal). Her research is focused on the study of the benthic diversity and ecosystem functioning in various deep-sea habitats (including cold seeps, submarine canyons and abyssal plains). She is also … Continued

Person: Ko-ichi Nakamura

Ko-ichi studies marine geology including hydrothermal and gas hydrate sites in various settings. Subseafloor fluid emission makes variety of geologic phenomena on the seafloor as well as variety of chemical and biological process in the water column. He joined the first 2009 expedition in the Cayman Trough utilizing HROV Nereus on the Cape Haterras with … Continued

Person: Eoghan Reeves

I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany. My research is focused on the biogeochemistry of seafloor hydrothermal systems, specifically the organic and inorganic chemistry of vent fluids and deposits. In 2012 I took part in the R/V Atlantis (AT18-16) expedition, where the Von Damm … Continued

Person: Thoi Chi Nguyen

Thoi NGUYEN completed his biology bachelor degree in 2005 and ecology Master’s degree in 2008 from the University of Natural Science, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. Following his degrees, Thoi began work in March 2009 at the Department of Marine Plankton, Institute of Oceanography (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology). Thoi works in ecology of … Continued

Person: Melanie Abecassis

Melanie is a research analyst from the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research of the University of Hawai’I, and works at the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. Her research primarily focuses on habitat modeling for various pelagic species using data from satellite tags deployed on animals. She has a Ph.D. in marine ecology from the … Continued

Person: Dara Tebo

Dara Tebo is a REMUS AUV Operator in the Ocean Systems Laboratory (OSL) at WHOI.  Dara started at WHOI in 2007 working in the Rigging Shop where she fabricated and tested mooring components and established procedures for testing wire used on the UNOLS Fleet.  She has gone to sea with several groups at WHOI deploying … Continued