Chris Preston is a research specialist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Chris’s background is in marine microbiology and she works with engineers help develop in situ instrumentation geared towards supporting ‘omic studies and real time analyses of marine microbes. While at sea, Chris will be helping the University of Hawaii, run MBARI’s latest … Continued
Tom O’Reilly is a software engineer at MBARI. His interests include software and applications for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and autonomous surface vehicles, including navigation and tracking, adaptive sampling, and development of small low-power cytometers and microscopes for use by microbial oceanographers. He is also interested in standard protocols for marine sensor interfaces and networks, … Continued
Brett Hobson is dedicated to developing reliable equipment and technologies that allow scientists 24/7 access to all parts of the ocean. In particular, he is focused on the development of long-endurance mobile vehicles and robotics to support long term time-series ocean observation. He is the senior ocean engineer and lead developer for MBARI’s Long Range … Continued
Brian Kieft has been an embedded software engineer at MBARI, in Monterey Bay, California, since 2006. He has worked on various platforms, including mooring controllers, benthic instruments, ASVs, and several AUVs and their associated payloads. Brian currently works on development of the Tethys AUV—a long-range, upper-water-column AUV designed primarily for biological sensing. Apart from development, … Continued
Steve Poulos is Special Projects Engineer for SCOPE. He has been developing and working with unique instrumentation and data acquisition systems in the areas of defense, seismic, and now microbial oceanography. His current effort, in concert with the SCOPE team, is to expand the spatial and temporal oceanographic sampling capability with the use of Autonomous Vehicles … Continued
Nick joined the Marine Trace Element Laboratory (MTEL) at the University of Southern California after finishing his Ph.D in Chemical Oceanography at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. As part of his postdoctoral research, Nick has collected hundreds of samples to better understand the marine iron cycle. Carried on the winds over thousands of … Continued
Paul Den Uyl is a research associate with the DeLong lab at the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology and University of Hawai‘i. Much of his work focuses on contemporary microbiological methods, particularly collection, processing, and sequencing of genomic/transcriptomic activity of microbial life in oligotrophic ocean. He received his B.S. in Geological Science with … Continued
Originally from the south of Spain, Ana Cabello is now a postdoctoral scholar in Jon Zehr’s Lab at the Ocean Sciences department (University of California, Santa Cruz). She developed her thesis studies at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Barcelona (Spain), and got her PhD in Oceanography in 2016. During her PhD she was focused … Continued
Kevin Becker is an organic geochemist working with molecular signatures of microbial communities in the ocean. He has a PhD from the University of Bremen in Germany and is currently a postdoc at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He specializes in studying how and why organisms leave their particular chemical signals in the marine environment … Continued
Fernanda recently completed her PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she specialized in bio-optical coastal oceanography and ocean color remote sensing. Fernanda is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher working with Angel White at Oregon State University. Fernanda is interested in understanding the inter-relationships between optical, biogeochemical and physical properties of the North Pacific … Continued
