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Rebecca Rutstein is an artist inspired by geology, maps and the undercurrents that shape our world. Seeking out geologically dynamic environments, Rebecca has been an Artist-in-Residence in Iceland, the Canadian Rockies, Vermont and Hawaii, and aboard the E/V Nautilus from the Galápagos Islands to California, and the R/V Falkor from Vietnam to Guam. She has … Continued

Chris Linder is a documentary photographer and filmmaker specializing in stories about science, conservation, and natural history.  A former oceanographer, Chris now documents scientists working in extreme environments.  Through photographs and video, he challenges the traditional science stereotype by showing how science is done in the field. Linder also teams up with writers and educators … Continued

Dr. Guangyu Xu is a currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Marine Geology & Geophysics department of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). He received his Ph.D. degree in marine sciences from Rutgers University in New Jersey in Oct 2015. His Ph.D. dissertation focuses on using an imaging sonar to monitor the heat output from seafloor … Continued

Dr. Cécile Cathalot is a research scientist at Ifremer, a French research institute for marine research and exploration. Part of the Laboratory of Metallogeny and Geochemistry, she focuses on the biogeochemistry of hydrothermal vents using both experimental and numerical approaches. For the past two years, along with her collaborators at Ifremer and IUEM (European Institute … Continued

Cédric Boulart is a marine geochemist based at IFREMER in Brest, France. He received his Ph.D. in Ocean and Earth Sciences from the University of Southampton (UK) in 2008, as part of a European Project focusing on the processes at mid-ocean ridges. He specializes in the development of methods and sensors for the detection, mapping … Continued

Dr. Olivier Rouxel is a geochemist at the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer) who has dedicated his career to studying metal isotopes in marine environments. Dr. Rouxel defended his PhD in 2002 at the “Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine”, and, after a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Cambridge in England in 2003, he … Continued

Dr. Diva Amon is a deep-sea ecologist with a special interest in chemosynthetic habitats and anthropogenic impacts in the deep sea. In 2013, she completed her PhD jointly at the University of Southampton and the Natural History Museum in London, UK. Since then, she has been a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Oceanography at … Continued

Dr. Isobel Yeo is a marine volcanologist and postgraduate research fellow in the Magmatic and Hydrothermal Systems group at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Her research focuses on the volcanic development of the ocean crust at mid-ocean ridges and the relationship of volcanic activity to hydrothermal venting. Isobel completed a B.Sc. … Continued

Dr. Tristan J. Horner is an Agouron Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He started at Woods Hole as a Postdoctoral Scholar in 2012 and will join the Scientific Staff in 2016. His research aims to understand the form, function, and history of the oceans biological carbon cycle and … Continued