Cécile Cathalot

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

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

Olivier Rouxel

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

Diva Amon

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

Isobel Yeo

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

Tristan Horner

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

Katlin Bowman

Dr. Katlin Bowman is a chemical oceanographer that studies the toxic element mercury. She has participated in multiple U.S. GEOTRACES transects in the North Atlantic, eastern tropical South Pacific, and Arctic Oceans, and expeditions studying mercury cycling along the northwest Atlantic continental shelf. Her work focuses on the chemical transformations of mercury in the marine … Continued

Cindy Lee Van Dover

Dr. Cindy Lee Van Dover is a deep-sea biologist with an interest in the ecology of chemosynthetic ecosystems and deep-sea conservation and environmental management. She began her work in this field in 1982, joining the first biological expedition to hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise. After earning a Master’s degree in ecology from UCLA … Continued

Chris German

Chris German is a marine geochemist who has spent 25 years exploring Earth’s deep oceans for sites of seafloor fluid flow including, in particular, submarine hydrothermal vents. Growing up in Rochester, about 30 miles SE of London, England, he was surrounded by the influence of the oceans. Both of his grandfathers, his father and both … Continued

Caleb Hsu

Caleb Hsu is a first year undergraduate student at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa. He graduated from Kaiser High School in 2015 and has resided in Honolulu, Hawai`i for ten years. As a major in Global Environmental Science, Caleb is involved in research with Dr. Brian Glazer, working on near-real-time sensor data streaming from … Continued