Clare Webster is a postgraduate researcher in the Pelagic Ecology Research Group at the University of St. Andrews in the UK. Her research is centered on the distribution of zooplankton in ice-impacted coastal environments. In these critically changing environments, pelagic processes such as the daily vertical migrations of zooplankton are crucial to our understanding of … Continued
Mark Royer is a graduate student in the Shark Lab at the Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology under Dr. Kim Holland and Dr. Carl Meyer. The lab studies the movement, behavior, ecology, and physiology of marine predators using novel tagging technology. Using various telemetry techniques, they hope to provide useful data for marine resource management … Continued
Katie is a first-year Masters student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She studies at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, and is co-advised by Drs. Megan Donahue and Erik Franklin. Before moving to Hawaii, she earned her B.S. in marine biology at UCLA, where she studied phase shifts on coral reefs and algal … Continued
Chong went to college in Northern China and graduated in 2007 with a major in computer science and technology. Then I went to the College of Ocean and Earth Science in Xiamen University and started to study bioacoustics, specializing in the subject of dolphin whistle classification. I got my master’s degree in 2011 in marine … Continued
Giacomo Giorli is a Fulbright scholar from Italy. He was granted his B.S. degree in natural science at the University of Florence, Italy, in 2005 investigating the spatial distribution of bottlenose dolphins in northern Tuscany. In 2008, Giacomo earned his M.S. in conservation and management of natural resource at the University of Florence, Italy, after … Continued
Anjali L. Nath will be participating in the acoustics team for this research cruise. She is a fourth-year degree fellow from the East-West Center and a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa in the Department of Political Science. She holds a B.A. from California State University at Fullerton in Political Science … Continued
Jessica Chen is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She works at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology in the Marine Mammal Research Program. She moved to Hawaii for graduate school after receiving a B.A. in Behavioral Biology from Johns Hopkins University. Though spending most of her life in Colorado, … Continued
Chelsie Counsell is a first year Ph.D. student in Megan Donahue’s lab at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. Broadly, her research interests are in the ecology and spatial dynamics of marine communities with a focus on the predators and prey of reef fish. Her dissertation project is beginning to take shape and is focused … Continued
Aimee grew up outside of Chicago, Illinois. After high school graduation, she was given the opportunity to create part of an environmental impact statement on the effects of offshore energy structures on marine mammals and birds with Argonne National Laboratory. That experience took her into a bachelor’s degree at the University of Miami in Coral … Continued
Melanie is a research analyst from the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research of the University of Hawai’I, and works at the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. Her research primarily focuses on habitat modeling for various pelagic species using data from satellite tags deployed on animals. She has a Ph.D. in marine ecology from the … Continued
