Student Opportunity Participants

A look into the experiences of our Student Opportunity Participants:

Joseph Knafelc 

February 2021
Seafloor to Seabirds in the Coral Sea
Volcanologist-at-Sea: Crystals to Seamounts

Georgia Nester

March 2020
Illuminating Biodiversity of Ningaloo Canyon
An Ocean of Opportunity
Sampling and Observing the Deep Sea
New Discoveries, Experiences, and Friendships

David Juszkiewicz

March 2020
Illuminating Biodiversity of Ningaloo Canyon
The Journey Before the Expedition
Sampling, Preserving, Documenting, and Always Learning
An Opportunity to Cherish

Nicholas Yoshioka

November 2019
Mapping the Gaps
An End to an Amazing Journey
First Experience at Sea

Antonella Wilby

November 2019
Mapping the Gaps
Sounding the Depths: Seafloor Mapping Across the South Pacific
High-Tech Sensors Prepared to Study Sea Surface Microlayer in Fiji

Kyra Thompson

October 2019
Listening for Cryptic Whales Species
A Student Offshore
More Confident and Comfortable

Eric Klingberg

September 2019
Necker Ridge: Bridge or Barrier?
Exploration and Exploitation: Coral Species and Deep-Sea Mining

Isabela Trumble

July 2019
Pacific Transit
Putting My Sea Legs to the Test
Look at all that Data!

Sydney Adams

July 2019
Pacific Transit
Never Growing Tide of Life on a Ship
Not Your Average Technicians

Elisa Aitoro

June 2019
Sea Trials & Seeking Space Rocks
Sea Trials and Error
According To Plan

Alexis Haifley

March 2019
Transit Manzanillo to Portland
Bringing It With You
The Thrill of Discovery

Chris Teufel

July 2018
The Seeping Cascadia Margin
Exploring, Learning, Mapping

D’amy Steward

July 2018
The Seeping Cascadia Margin
Students, Science, Art
Last Watch

Lance Frymire

May 2018 – June 2018
Exploring Fronts with Multiple Robots
A Helping Hand
The Night Cast

Cherie Colyer-Morris

December 2017 – January 2018
Filling the Gaps: Mapping Ellice Basin
Building Perspective
Seafloor Secrets
Expanding Horizons

Rachel Edwards

October/November 2015
Magnetic Anomalies at the World’s Largest Volcano
Meet SOI’s New Student Opportunities Participant
Opportunity of a Lifetime
Perspective: The Voyage Home

Jennifer Killinger

August 2015
Mixing Up the Tropical Pacific
The Calm Before the Storm
Shear-ly You Must Be Curious
Everything You Wanted to Know About El Niño
The Voyage Home
Video 1: Creating Drag for the Vertical Microstructure Profiler
Video 2: Waves of Change

Julianna Diehl

August 2015
Mixing Up the Tropical Pacific
Prologue
Becoming a Marine Technician
Everything You Wanted to Know About El Niño
When the Ocean has a Different Plan for Your Science
The Voyage Home

Upcoming OpportunIties

Applications are now closed for 2022 Student Opportunities program.

Please review the program details above and the Frequently Asked Questions before contacting student@schmidtocean.org with any other questions.