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: 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: 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: Jay Lunden

Jay is a 5th year Ph.D. student in the Biology Department at Temple University. His research focuses on the effects of ocean acidification (OA) on the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa. Jay is interested in how OA affects calcification and other physiological processes, and hopes to expand this line of research in his future academic career. … Continued

Person: Praditya Avianto

Praditya Avianto is a technician of Marine Geology at Research Center for Oceanography – Indonesian Institute of Sciences with DIII informatics engineering background. He has been working with oceanographic and geological data processing and participating in several research expeditions for more than 20 years. Praditya has lengthy expereince working as a research equipment administrator on … Continued

Person: Saulo Soares

Saulo Soares is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s International Pacific Research Center. Saulo recently earned his PhD in Oceanography from the Department of Oceanography of the University of Hawaii . He also has a B. Sc. in Oceanology from the University of Rio Grande (2005) and in 2007 Saulo earned … Continued

Person: Jan Witting

Jan Witting is a biological oceanographer with long-running interests in the Sub Tropical and Equatorial Pacific, where he has served as Chief Scientist on more than 20 research cruises. His work broadly addresses the linkage between climate variation, circulation, and biological production in the tropical and subtropical oceans, where he studies the effects of changing … Continued

Person: Anna Romano

Anna is a Research Associate at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa, working in the laboratory of Dr. Edward DeLong. She joined the team to spearhead developing high throughput workflows using robotics to prepare marine microbial and marine sediment trap samples for genetic sequencing. In addition to her laboratory role, she joined the UH/MBARI LRAUV collaboration … Continued