João Pereira is a senior research Engineer at the Underwater Systems and Technology Laboratory (LSTS) at the University of Porto and he’s head of the LSTS’s hardware division. He earned a Masters degree (2009) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Porto and soon joined the LSTS with the purpose of working with challenging robotic … Continued
Javier Gilabert is an Associate Professor of Oceanography at the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena – UPCT in Spain. He has spent most of his career at the interplay between biological, physical and chemical oceanography and now with autonomous underwater robotics. His research is currently focused on better understand plankton functioning through the light of chemical … Continued
Bruno Loureiro is an Electronic Engineer responsible for the development of dataloggers for the area of marine biology in the scope of the project “MarInfo – Integrated Platform for Marine Data Analysis and Acquisition.” His degree was in Electronic Engineering and Computer Networks in 2008, and recently he obtained a masters in software, which comes … Continued
Dr. Salvador Jorgensen is a marine ecologist and holds the position of Senior Research Scientist in the Conservation Research department at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Jorgensen’s research focuses on the ecology, migration and population dynamics of pelagic fishes and elasmobranchs. His recent interests lie in understanding the distribution, abundance, and movement of ocean species and … Continued
Dr. Barbara A. Block holds the Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Professorship at Stanford University. Her research is focused on how large pelagic fish utilize the open ocean spanning from genomics to biologging. She and her team have pioneered the successful development and deployment of electronic tags on tunas, billfishes and sharks. The combination of lab … Continued
Dr. Nathan Truelove is a marine biologist dedicated to using molecular techniques to help inform marine conservation. His current research focuses on detecting marine species by sequencing environmental DNA (eDNA) present in seawater. In the marine environment eDNA originates from a variety of sources such as damaged tissue, the shedding of skin cells, and metabolic … Continued
Bruce Robison earned a PhD from Stanford University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He then returned home to California, and to UC Santa Barbara. In 1987 he joined the fledgling Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), where he is currently a Senior Scientist. Robison’s research is focused on the biology … Continued
Elan Portner is a doctoral student at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station. His research is focused on understanding the diversity and variability of open ocean forage communities, made up of the animals that are eaten by many top predators including tunas, sharks, and mammals. In particular, he is interested in the forage communities that live … Continued
Originally from Rhode Island, Paul Kanive has worked and played on the ocean most of his life. After getting his B.S. from the University of Rhode Island, he worked several contracts as a NOAA groundfish observer in Alaska. During this time Paul learned firsthand the plight of sharks, as they were discarded as dead bycatch … Continued
