Debra Cobain

Debra joined SOI in October 2017 as the Operations Administrator, which includes supporting Cruise Planning and Crew Management. With over 20 years of experience as a business owner, Debra brings with her strong management / organizational skills. Debra was a crew member aboard the M/V Thea Foss based out of Seattle, Washington, as Purser, Medical … Continued

Lea Oeljeschlaeger

Lea Oeljeschlaeger is a Masters student of the research-oriented Master program “Marine Environmental Sciences“ at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. For her Environmental Science Research Project and her Master thesis, Lea is involved in the Research Group for Marine Geochemistry at the Institute for the Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) at the University of Oldenburg, … Continued

Sophia Brumer

Sophia Brumer is a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. She joined the air-sea interaction group led by Dr. Christopher Zappa at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory after graduating from Southampton University with a MSci in Physical Oceanography in 2011. Her research revolves around boundary layer turbulence, surface waves … Continued

Nur Ili Hamizah Mustaffa

Nur Ili Hamizah Mustaffa is a PhD student from Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), University of Oldenburg, Germany. Her research is focus on chemical composition in Sea-surface microlayers (SML) and how it will affect air-sea CO2 exchange. She received her BSc in Chemistry and MSc in Environmental Science from National … Continued

Thorsten Dittmar

Thorsten Dittmar studied geoecology and marine chemistry (Universities of Bayreuth and Bremen, Germany). He is now professor for Marine Geochemistry at the Institute for the Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) at the University of Oldenburg (Germany). Before, he was head of a Research Group at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Marine … Continued

William (Bill) Landing

William Landing has earned degrees in Chemistry (UC Santa Cruz, BS, 1975 and Ph.D. 1983) and Chemical Oceanography (University of Washington, MS, 1978). He studied river chemistry in California and the aquatic speciation of trace elements in Swedish and Norwegian fjords during two post-doctoral appointments. He joined the faculty in the Department of Oceanography at … Continued

Oliver Wurl

Dr. Oliver Wurl, the Chief Scientist for this expedition, is a scientist and head of the group “Sea Surface” at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. His research interests include the air-sea gas exchange, sea surface, carbon cycling and aerosol chemistry, and using that … Continued

Kim Bird

Kimberley is a 3rd year PhD student supervised by Dr Michael Cunliffe at The Marine Biological Association of the UK, co-supervised by Professor J Colin Murrell and Dr Parvadha Suntharalingam at the University of East Anglia. Prior to starting her PhD in 2014, Kim gained a BSc in Marine and Freshwater Biology from Kingston University … Continued

Mariana Ribas Ribas

Dr. Mariana Ribas Ribas is a chemical oceanographer with research interests at carbon and carbonate cycling across aquatic systems including coastal ecosystems (estuaries and continental margins) and polar region with particular emphasis on the exchange of CO2 with the atmosphere and on the coupling between inorganic carbon dynamics and biological processes. Dr. Ribas-Ribas received a … Continued

Rachel Shelley

Dr. Rachel Shelley specializes in the biogeochemical cycling of trace elements in the ocean, with a focus on atmospheric supply and transfer across the air-sea interface. On the cruise, she will be working with Dr Bill Landing, Florida State University, to collect aerosol, rain water and sea water samples for the determination of a suite … Continued