I am originally from Durango, Colorado, and I developed a deep appreciation for the natural world early on. I pursued my undergraduate degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, where I combined academics with my passion for the outdoors and for giving back to my community. During … Continued
Biologist, graduated from the University of Vale do Itajaí (UNIVALI, 2018), with two postgraduate specializations: Applied Marine Sciences for Education (Federal Institute of Santa Catarina, 2024) and Welfare, Management, and Behavior of Wild and Exotic Animals (Tuiuti University of Paraná, 2024). Works in the fields of marine biology, animal welfare, wildlife and marine fauna management … Continued
Ben Frable completed Bachelor’s degrees in Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences and Biology: Ecology and Evolution at the University of Washington. He received his M.Sc. from Oregon State University, researching neotropical characiform fish evolution and biogeography. He has been Collection Manager of the Marine Vertebrate Collection at SIO since 2016. He is most interested in species-level … Continued
Anela is a biological oceanographer and a deep-sea ecologist. She is an Associate Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego. Her research investigates deep ocean food web connections, both between organisms and across habitats. Anela is interested in food web biogeochemistry and the processes that drive feeding and the movement … Continued
Artist and early-career scientist with over ten years of experience in illustration and design. Committed to an interdisciplinary approach to marine conservation, he creates art to foster public interest in science. He received his Bachelor’s from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2011 and his M.A.S. in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation from SIO in … Continued
Currently, Xenia Barnes is a graduate scholar at the University of California, San Diego, studying phylogenetics and the factors that drive species evolution while pursuing a Master’s degree in Biological Oceanography. She is studying at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography under the Rouse Spineless Lab, which focuses on identifying benthic invertebrates worldwide. As for her … Continued
Danya Awshah is a second-year Ph.D. Student in Biological Oceanography at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She is from Tampa, Florida, where she completed degrees in Environmental Science and Policy and Chemistry at the University of South Florida. At Scripps, she is a member of the Décima Lab, a zooplankton ecology lab that investigates a … Continued
Pilar Quinteros (Chile, 1988). Grew up in the south or Chile, now lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. Bachelor of Arts from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2011), studying the MA of Arts at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW. In her work she combines drawing, volume, performance and video, all media that … Continued
Anne Duk Hee Jordan (born 1978 in Korea) is an artist living and working in Berlin. She studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and the Institut für Raumexperimente with Olafur Eliasson at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 2023, she has been a Professor of Digital Media at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. In the … Continued
Siara Mitchell is a current graduate student in the Rouse lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The Rouse lab focuses on the diversity and identification of benthic invertebrates worldwide, with particular emphasis on chemosynthetic deep-sea environments and whalefalls. Her M.S. research project involves identifying and describing new species of pycnogonids (sea spiders) from methane seeps … Continued
