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
Dr. Vicki Ferrini is a Research Scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She received her B.A. in Geology/Biology from Colby College, and went on to earn a M.S. in Marine Environmental Science and Ph.D. in Coastal Oceanography at Stony Brook University. Her research focuses on using mapping techniques to understand the processes that shape … Continued
Dr. Roxanne Beinart is an NSF Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Roxanne received a B.S. in microbiology from Cornell University in 2006 and a PhD from Harvard University in 2013. Her research focuses on understanding the physiology of microbial symbionts and their role in shaping ecosystem processes. … Continued
Jenny Delaney is the lab manager for Dr. Peter Girguis at Harvard University. She received her B.A. in Biology from Ripon College and her M.S. in Marine Science-Biological Oceanography from the University of South Florida. She then worked as a technician at USF, participating in research cruises and performing toxicity assays in response to the Deepwater … Continued
Emily Estes is a graduate student working with Colleen Hansel at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her research explores how minerals interact with organic carbon in marine sediments and what implications those interactions have for microbial life. When not in lab or at sea, she can be found wandering Cape Cod with her dog, Moxie.
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
Dr. Chuck Fisher is a deep-sea biologist whose research interests include the physiology of animals harboring chemoautotrophic symbionts, and the ecology of the communities that they often dominate. He has worked extensively with submersible and robotic vehicles to study these communities in their natural habitats around hydrothermal vents and cold seeps all over the world. Dr. … Continued
Jessica Panzarino is in her second year of graduate school at Harvard University in Prof. Peter R. Girguis’s lab. She studies chemosynthetic symbiosis at hydrothermal vents. In particular, she is interested in how symbiotic associations can expand the metabolic repertoire for the organisms involved. She is also fascinated in how the metabolic processes of microbes … Continued
Dr. Cherisse Du Preez studies the deep-sea spatial ecology of hydrothermal vents. She uses two- and three-dimensional imaging to study the very fine spatial distribution of vent animals in response to physical and chemical environmental conditions (at a centimeter scale). This research will help identify the required living conditions of these unique animal assemblages, proving … Continued
