Bill Danforth is a marine geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Woods Hole, MA. Bill’s career has focused on the advances in the technology and techniques used to collect, analyze, and publish marine remote sensing data. Over the past 30 years, Bill has participated in dozens of cruises to collect, conduct quality assurance … Continued
Amanda Demopoulos is a Research Benthic Ecologist for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at the Wetland and Aquatic Research Center in Gainesville, Florida. She received her Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and completed postdoctoral work with Lisa Levin at Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Amanda has a long history working … Continued
Tim Weiss is a software engineer and technician in the “Deep Sea Monitoring Group” at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, where he has worked since 2013. Tim spent six years in the German Navy as an electronic technician before studying at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden. He has also … Continued
An avid ocean explorer, Sarah searches for life in areas of the ocean that have never before been seen by the human eye. Her passions lie in researching the dynamics of habitats fueled by chemicals, instead of the sun, and in thinking of how these habitats relate to the possibility of life on other planets. … Continued
Michael Casso is a physical scientist at US Geological Survey (USGS) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and works primarily with the Geochemistry Laboratory that supports the USGS Gas Hydrates Project. He received his BA in geology from Hamilton College and has worked with the USGS for more than two decades on geochemical environmental monitoring and sediment … Continued
Karthik Anantharaman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences from the University of Michigan in 2014 studying the geomicrobiology of deep-sea hydrothermal plumes. His interdisciplinary research program focuses on understanding the cycling of sulfur and nutrients, with a strong … Continued
Rachael Karns is a first year Ph.D student in Dr. Mandy Joye’s lab at the University of Georgia and is extremely excited to be returning to the Gulf of California on her second research cruise. She first earned her B.Sc in Biology at Roanoke College in 2015, and went on to achieve her M.Sc in … Continued
Zac is a research technician in the Joye Research Group at the University of Georgia. He earned a B.S. in Biology and a M.S. in the Biological Sciences from Youngstown State University in 2015 and 2017 respectively. He’s interested in studying microorganisms that inhabit methane-rich environments, especially those involved in the anaerobic oxidation of methane.
Charlotte is currently in her first year of her MS program at Coastal Carolina University’s Coastal Marine and Wetland Studies program. She works in the Groundwater Discharge Measurement Facility, as a member of Rick Peterson’s lab, where she studies submarine groundwater flows in bacterial mats on the sea floor using naturally occurring radium isotopes. Her thesis … Continued
Dr. Christian Borowski is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany. He has a diploma in biology and a Ph.D. in marine biology from the University of Hamburg. Germany. His work in the Department of Symbiosis at the Max Planck Institute centers around chemosynthetic symbioses at deep sea hydrothermal … Continued
