Jialing Cai is a marine biologist, underwater photographer, and science communicator from Chongqing, China. Her work focuses on exploring marine larval dispersal and planktonic ecosystems through macro photography in the open ocean at night. In 2023, she earned the prestigious title of Ocean Photographer of the Year and was invited by Ocean Census to join … Continued
Nonny (Oenone) Scott is a PhD student at the University of Essex. Her research is focused on connectivity of invertebrates in the Southern Ocean, and she is currently working on larval dispersal models of octocorals in the Scotia Sea, with a goal to help improve our understanding of the connectivity of these vulnerable marine ecosystems. … Continued
Zhehao is currently pursuing his M.Sc. in biology at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He previously specialized in molecular ecology, and has been working on the taxonomy of deep-sea isopods of the genus Acanthocope since last year, bringing his expertise to interdisciplinary research. His work evaluates species delimitation, phylogenetic history, and biogeography from various perspectives. … Continued
Dr Andrea Verolino is a volcanologist who is currently working on volcano hazard-related aspects in Southeast Asia at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, where he is a Research Fellow. His research interests span from physical volcanology to planetary geology, but his main focus is on subaqueous volcanoes, particularly he tries to understand how the magma-water … Continued
Corbyn Johannes is a doctoral researcher at the University of Plymouth, focusing on studying Antarctic turbidity currents, with particular attention to their causes, characteristics, and significance within the global carbon cycle. He holds an MPhys in Physics from the University of Southampton, alongside an MSci in Applied Marine Science from the University of Plymouth. The … Continued
Dr Elin Angharad Thomas is a deep-sea biologist and science communicator, currently working as Communications Manager for the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI). Elin also holds an Adjunct Research Fellow position with the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre at the University of Western Australia. Her research to date has focussed on the ecology, biogeography and conservation of … Continued
Dr. Giulia La Bianca (pronounced: ˈdʒuːliə) is a benthic ecologist currently working at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) in the UK. Her expertise lies in benthic ecology, deep-sea fauna identification, habitat suitability modelling, and assessing ecosystem services. At PML, she focuses on using artificial intelligence to accelerate species identification from underwater footage. Her work ensures high-quality … Continued
Dr Jenny Gales is Associate Professor of Ocean Exploration at the University of Plymouth, specializing in submarine slope processes and geohazards. Jenny has a passion for submarine landslides, canyons, volcanoes, channels and gullies on high latitude continental margins. She uses cutting-edge technologies to image and measure the seafloor and subseafloor, including shipboard acoustics, coring, marine … Continued
Dr Jesse van der Grient is a quantitative marine ecologist with experience in marine ecology, resource management and marine conservation, combining observational, experimental and modelling data with a link to policy. Her research focuses on how environmental and anthropogenic impacts directly and indirectly affect marine food webs and how this links to ecosystem services, with … Continued
Joe Sharman – Head of Expeditions, The Nekton Foundation and the Ocean Census Joe is a Marine Biologist and Expedition Leader with a background in behavioural ecology and bioacoustics, always with a focus on fieldwork and maritime operations. Joe has coordinated and led marine science expeditions to some of the most remote locations in the … Continued
