Peter is a Mechanical Technician with Highland Technologies/Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility. During the cruise, he will be performing routine maintenance upon the vehicle, mainly focusing on mechanical and hydraulic systems. He will also be operating the winch for deploying and recovering the ROV, as well as acting as a pilot and manipulator operator. A Mechanical … Continued
Kyle is a ROPOS subsea navigation technician with Highland Technologies/Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility. His position on the cruise involves providing navigation assistance to pilots, and technical assistance to the crew. While providing communications between the ship’s bridge and pilots, Kyle is also responsible for plotting waypoints, noting subsea features, and assisting with mobilization/demobilization of the … Continued
Myriam is a Ph.D student at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) working under the supervision of Dr. Anna Metaxas in the Department of Oceanography. Her research focuses on the distribution of the animals living on the seafloor–in particular cold-water corals, sponges, anemones, brittle stars and seastars–in the deep waters of the eastern Gulf of Maine. Myriam … Continued
Myriam is a Ph.D student at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) working under the supervision of Dr. Anna Metaxas in the Department of Oceanography. Her research focuses on the distribution of the animals living on the seafloor–in particular cold-water corals, sponges, anemones, brittle stars and seastars–in the deep waters of the eastern Gulf of Maine. Myriam … Continued
Dr. S. Kim Juniper is Science Director for the Ocean Networks Canada undersea cabled observatory. He is also a Professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and the Department of Biology at the University of Victoria, and holder of the BC Leadership Chair in Ocean Ecosystems and Global Change. The primary focus of … Continued
Dr. Maia Hoeberechts is a member of the Ocean Networks Canada science team based at the University of Victoria. In her role as Staff Scientist for Engineering and Computational Research, she serves as the key liaison for external researchers working with Ocean Networks Canada in the areas of Computer Science and Engineering. Her responsibilities include … Continued
James Nestor has written for Outside Magazine, Men’s Journal, Dwell Magazine, National Public Radio,The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, and more. His science/adventure book, DEEP: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Eamon Dolan Books) was released in the US and UK on June 24, 2014. Within … Continued
Dr. Pei-Yuan Qian Qian is a marine ecologist specializing in marine invertebrate larval ecology (larval omics), microbial molecular ecology, and marine natural products for non-toxic antifouling compounds. Over the last six years, he has focused on microbial metagenomics, symbiosis and bioactive compounds in the deep-sea brine pools, cold seeps, and coral reefs of the Red … Continued
David is the Principal ElectronicTechnician for the AUV Development Group of the Marine Physical Laboratory at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). He assists in the design, development, testing, deployment and recovery of oceanographic research equipment. He has worked at Marine Physical Laboratory for nearly 20 years.
Bethany Kolody is a graduate student researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She completed her B.S. in Biology at New York University Abu Dhabi, where her senior capstone thesis provided the first insights to the biogeography of free-living marine nematodes in the Arabian Gulf. Her research experience includes a semester at Sea with Sea Education … Continued
