Person: Dylan Mankel

Dylan Mankel is an NSF GRFP Fellow and Ph.D. student in Biology at Boston University under Dr. Jeffrey Marlow. His research focuses on extremophile microorganisms and their habitats, ranging from hydrothermal vents in the Caribbean Sea to hyperalkaline springs in northern California. He is interested in how microbial communities come to inhabit and derive energy … Continued

Log Post: A Landscape Transformed | Fire and Ice: Volcanic and Glacial Interactions

Southern Chile is a landscape shaped by glaciation and volcanism, and this cross-disciplinary international science team is working on R/V Falkor (too) to reveal the imprint of the 2008 Chaitén volcanic eruption on the marine environment. Their #EruptionArchives research will help unlock deeper-time records of significant volcanic eruptions in the region, allowing scientists to reconstruct … Continued

Person: Patricia Esquete

Patricia Esquete is assistant Researcher at the Biology Department and Centre of Marine and Environmental Studies of the University of Aveiro (Portugal). She has a BS in Marine Biology for the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, a Ms in Oceanography by the Universidad de Cádiz, a Ms in Anthropology for the Universidad Nacional de Educación … Continued

Person: Adam Skarke

Adam Skarke is an Associate Professor of Geology in the Department of Geosciences at Mississippi State University. Prior to his current appointment, he was a scientist with the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration. Adam’s research is focused on understanding fundamental physical relationships between sediment transport, morphological expression, stratigraphy, and subsurface fluid flow in seafloor environments … Continued

Person: Amber Henningsen

Amber Henningsen is a Master student at the Institute for Geography, University of Bremen, in northern Germany. Complementing a team of biologists at INES (Integrated Environmental Solutions), which is based at the Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven, she currently works with benthic macrofauna and megafauna from the Clarion-Clipperton-Zone. Several cruises to the Pacific let her gain … Continued

Person: Amanda Semler

Amanda Semler graduated with a PhD in Earth System Science from Stanford University in June of 2024. She is currently working in her PhD lab as a researcher and field technician to finish a few ongoing projects before searching for jobs. Her PhD focused on characterizing the microbial diversity and geochemistry of hydrocarbon seeps – … Continued

Person: Amy Mackintosh

Amy Mackintosh is a third year PhD student at Nord University in Norway. Her current research is focused on marine biogeography and projecting the impacts of future climate change on global marine aquaculture regions and species.  Amy obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Marine Biology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa where her … Continued

Person: Caterina Maria Antognazza

Caterina Maria Antognazza is a biologist, currently a Postdoc researcher in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Science (DiSTA) at the University of Insubria (Italy), where her main focus is on freshwater ecosystem management, biodiversity conservation and the phylogenetic evolution of animals closely related to aquatic habitats. Her research is oriented towards biogeography, phylogenetics and … Continued

Person: Dakota Bertz

Dakota Betz is an M.S. student and lab technician at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography – University of California, San Diego. Under the direction of Dr. Greg Rouse, our lab focuses on invertebrate diversity and taxonomy in the deep sea, particularly around whale falls, sea mounts, methane seeps, and hydrothermal vents. Dakota is currently working … Continued

Person: Davide Oppo

Davide Oppo is an Associate Professor and the Pioneer Production Endowed Professor of Geology at the School of Geosciences, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (USA), where he leads the Sedimentary Basins Research Group. Previously, he served as a Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen (UK) and the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). Davide is … Continued