Fanny Girard is a third-year Ph.D. student in Dr. Charles Fisher’s lab at the Pennsylvania State University. As part of her thesis, she has been looking at the long-term impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deep-sea coral communities in the Gulf of Mexico using imaging methods. She is mainly focusing on understanding processes … Continued
Michael Hannaford is an ROV Pilot & Mechanical Technician who works as a contractor on a variety of ROV systems. He has worked with the ROPOS system several times in the past. For this cruise Michael, along with the rest of the ROV crew, will be responsible for piloting the ROV, operating the ROV manipulators, … Continued
Raymond (Ray) is an Electrical and Imaging Technician with the ROPOS Team. His responsibilities on the cruise involve supporting the ROV’s electrical systems, integrating information technologies, as well as providing navigation and imaging design. Ray has completed an education in Technology in Electronics, and holds trade qualifications as a Power Engineer 2nd Class. He is … Continued
Jonathan (Jon) is an Electrical Engineer for the ROPOS System with Highland Technologies/Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility. During the deployment, he will be acting as both a pilot and electrical technician for the ROV. He has over five years of experience with the ROPOS system, primarily in supporting its electrical, telemetry, and power systems. A graduate … Continued
Peter is a Mechanical ROV Technician with Highland Technologies/Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility. Peter will provide technical support of the hydraulic and mechanical systems on ROPOS, as well as acting as a pilot and manipulator operator. He will also provide integration support for mechanical aspects of the science equipment being equipped on ROPOS. Peter has been … Continued
Keith is the Assistant General Manager for the ROPOS team with Highland Technologies/Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility. During the cruise, he will be acting as an operations supervisor, deck commander for ROV operations, pilot, and electrical technician. Keith is primarily responsible for assisting with the management of the ROPOS ROV, and overseeing design and fabrication of … Continued
Ian is a ROPOS ROV Technician with Highland Technologies/Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility. During both legs of the cruise, Ian will be piloting the vehicle as well as integrating scientific sampling and monitoring equipment onto the ROV. Ian has worked offshore with ROPOS for the last 15 years in a variety of capacities including pilot, co-pilot, … Continued
Keith is the General Manager of the ROPOS team. During the first leg of the cruise he will be overseeing the ROPOS crew as the operational supervisor, as well as acting as a pilot and manipulator operator. Keith began working with research submersibles in 1981, by piloting manned submersibles to depths of 2000 metres. Over … Continued
Monika Bright is a Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria and is appointed head of the Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography and Vice Study Program Director of Ph.D. studies at the Faculty of Life Sciences. Monika received her Ph.D. in zoology and paleontology at the University of Vienna in 1992 and her habilitation in … Continued
Sam Vohsen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biological Sciences at Lehigh University working with Dr. Santiago Herrera. He received a Ph.D. in Biology from the Pennsylvania State University in 2019, studying the impacts of hydrocarbon seeps on deep-sea coral communities and the microbial associates of deep-sea corals. The majority of his research has focused … Continued
