Dr. Lemus has taught and led science education and outreach programs in different venues for over 20 years. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biology at UCLA, and then a Ph.D. in Marine Biology at University of Southern California, focusing on physiological and cellular interactions in tropical marine symbiotic organisms. A faculty specialist … Continued
Gabriela is a Brazilian Oceanographer with a Masters degree in Physical, Chemical and Geological Oceanography granted by the Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil (2013). She is currently a PhD Candidate at the CSIRO-UTAS PhD Program in Quantitative Marine Science and is based at CSIRO. Her main research interests are dynamical oceanography and mesoscale features. … Continued
Annalena Lochte boards the R/V Falkor as a research volunteer. In July 2014 she completed her Palaeobiology studies at Uppsala University, Sweden and obtained her Master of Science. Her research interests revolve around the reconstruction of Paleoclimate and Paleoceanography using Microfossils. In her Master’s Thesis Annalena investigated the link between coccolith thickness and Ocean Acidification. … Continued
Danielle Mitchell is a recent Marine Science graduate from the University of Tasmania. Originally from Melbourne, Victoria, she chose Hobart, Tasmania as a place to embark on a journey in marine biology. After completing a Bachelor of Arts in Melbourne, she decided to obtain her Bachelor of Marine Science from the University of Tasmania. Recently completing … Continued
Dr. Randall Lee is a coastal oceanographer with over 25 years experience in multi-disciplinary studies within Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Randall has a Doctorate of Philosophy and Master of Science in oceanography, and a Bachelor of Science in hydrology and meteorology. Through association with marine environment issues engaged by government and university partners, Randall’s … Continued
Dr. Pete Strutton is a biological oceanographer from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania. Pete grew up in Adelaide, South Australia and has degrees from Flinders University. He was a postdoc at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (California), then held faculty positions at Stony Brook University (New York) … Continued
Dr. Sam Kelly is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota–Duluth, Large Lakes Observatory and Dept. of Physics. He received his BA in Physics from Carleton College and his PhD in physical oceanography from Oregon State University. He has spent his career observing and numerically modelling internal-tide generation, propagation, and scattering–first on the Oregon … Continued
Dr. Amy Waterhouse, chief scientist on the T-Beam cruise, is a physical oceanographer working at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She joined Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2011 as a post-doctoral researcher, working with Dr. Jennifer MacKinnon as part of the Climate Process Team assembled to further understand global patterns of mixing due to internal … Continued
Education: PhD, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (2009) Master of Environmental Management, Duke University (2001) Bachelor of Arts, English, Duke University (1988) Research Interests I am a deep-sea biologist and project lead for the new Deep-Sea Coral Ecology Laboratory at NOAA’s National Center for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) in Charleston, SC. My primary research interest is … Continued
Josh O’Brien is a Marine Technician on Falkor (too).
