Dieter Bevans

Dieter Bevans is a graduate student researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. He received his B.S. in physics from the University of Utah with a focus on noise in OLED’s. His research involves acoustic properties in sediments, deep sea instrumentation, and the coupling of low-frequency sound from airborne … Continued

Allison Miller

Allison is a master’s student in the Biology Department at the University of Guam. After graduating from the University of California San Diego, she studied coral microbiology at MOTE Marine Laboratory in Florida. Her current research focuses on the higher-level systematics of sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea: Echinodermata) and is part of the Echinoderm Tree of Life … Continued

Than Kyaw

Than S. Kyaw is an undergraduate student at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) double majoring in Microbiology and Pharmacological Chemistry. Beginning in September 2013 he joined Dr. Doug Bartlett’s deep-sea microbiology laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) to investigate microbial diversity and the comparative genomics of pressure-adapted microbes. Deep-sea microbiology combines his … Continued

Greg Rouse

Dr. Greg Rouse is currently a Professor in the Marine Biology Research Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. He is also the Curator of the Benthic Invertebrate Collection at Scripps. Rouse earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the University of Queensland in Australia and then obtained his Ph.D. at … Continued

Michael J. Buckingham

Michael J. Buckingham is a Distinguished Professor, specializing in ocean acoustics, at the Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. Prior to joining Scripps, he was an Individual Merit Senior Principal Scientific Officer at the Royal Aerospace Establishment, U.K, during which time he served as the U.K. National Representative on … Continued

Cynthia Matzke

Cynthia Matzke holds a Master of Advanced Studies from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. She possesses a decade-long cohesive background in journalism, producing packages and assets for NBC Universal, Akaku television, and on independent documentaries. Her goal is to foster conservation efforts by pairing ocean science research with stunning imagery … Continued

David Barclay

Dr. David Barclay is a new faculty member in Dalhousie University’s Department of Oceanography after recently completing a post-doctoral scholar fellowship at the Deep Ocean Exploration Institute at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.  Dr. Barclay has a B.Sc. in physics from McGill University and received a Ph.D. in 2011 from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the … Continued

Douglas Bartlett

Professor Douglas H. Bartlett received his Ph.D. in microbial molecular biology at the University of Illinois in 1985.  After several years as a postdoctoral scholar and Research Scientist at the Agouron Institute in La Jolla he assumed a faculty position at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, in 1989, where he now … Continued

Billie Lee

Billie Lee is an interdisciplinary artist currently in her second year of the American Studies Ph.D. program at the University of Hawai‛i at Mānoa. She recently directed and produced the documentary film Moving Home, which premiered at the Hawai‛i International Film Festival in 2012. She is happy to be helping with video documentation and editing … Continued

Adam Smith

Born and raised in South Dakota, Adam received his B.S. in Biology from the University of Minnesota in 2009. He spent the next two years in Omaha, Nebraska studying the acoustic communication of tigers in a collaboration between the Omaha Zoo and Boys Town National Research Hospital. Currently, he is in his third year of … Continued