Mark Hannington is the Goldcorp Chair in Economic Geology at the University of Ottawa and Helmholtz Professor at GEOMAR – Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa in 2005 and GEOMAR in 2014, he was a senior research scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada for 15 years. His … Continued
Amy Gartman is a Research Oceanographer and Global Marine Minerals project lead at the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center in Santa Cruz, California. She joined the USGS in 2015 as a Mendenhall fellow. She completed a B.S. in Chemistry from New York University and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Delaware, … Continued
Dr. John W. Jamieson is the Canada Research Chair in Marine Geology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Previously, he was a research scientist at GEOMAR – Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, in Kiel, Germany. Dr. Jamieson studies hydrothermal systems and the formation of massive sulfide deposits on the seafloor. This research focuses on the underlying … Continued
Sam has been working in the offshore underwater industry for the last 10 years. As a Systems/Electrical Engineer for several companies in the San Diego area, he has worked with ROVs from the early concept stage to full operation and deployment. He has worked with scientists, police and military personnel, research institutes, oil & gas, and … Continued
Dara Tebo is a REMUS AUV Operator in the Ocean Systems Laboratory (OSL) at WHOI. Dara started at WHOI in 2007 working in the Rigging Shop where she fabricated and tested mooring components and established procedures for testing wire used on the UNOLS Fleet. She has gone to sea with several groups at WHOI deploying … Continued
Mark Dennett has been with the REMUS Ops group for about eight years. His responsibilities within the group include ensuring REMUS 6000 vehicle system readiness for long term deployments, planning and implementation of the systems shipboard installation, deck operations and directly overseeing vehicle operations while at sea. Mark came to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution after … Continued
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
