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
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
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
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
Michael Cunliffe currently holds a joint appointment between the Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) and Plymouth University. He joined the MBA in 2010 as an MBA Research Fellow, and in 2014 became a Lecturer in Marine Microbiology at Plymouth University. He has also been awarded an Honorary Lectureship in the Department of Environmental … Continued
Dr. David Kadko’s research interests lie in utilizing naturally occurring radioactivity for the purpose of tracing the pathways and discovering the rates of various oceanic processes. Because naturally occurring radioisotopes have half-lives ranging from seconds to many years, it is possible to study processes that encompass a great variety of temporal and spatial scales. This … Continued
Dr. Cordes is a Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Biology at Temple University. He is a self-described ocean explorer and ecological oceanographer whose research is focused on cold-water coral reefs, natural hydrocarbon seeps, and hydrothermal vents, as well as their conservation. This includes biogeochemistry, documenting ecosystem services, biogeography, patterns in community assembly, … Continued
Janina is a second year PhD student in the Environmental Science graduate program of the University of Oldenburg and part of Oliver Wurl’s “Sea Surface” working group. Her work has its focus on the role of microbiology on air-sea gas exchange processes in the surface microlayer. She uses microsensor technology to measure micro-gradients of oxygen, … Continued
Dr. Bruce Robison is a Senior Scientists and Midwater Ecologist at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).
Dr. Nadine Le Bris is a deep-sea ecologist, with an interdisciplinary expertise at the interface of marine chemistry, biogeochemistry and ecology. Her current research focuses on the sensitivity of deep-sea ecosystems to environmental dynamics, under multiple natural and anthropogenic influences. She attended more than 20 research cruises with manned submersibles and ROVs on hydrothermal vents and … Continued
