Dr. Cindy Lee Van Dover is a deep-sea biologist with an interest in the ecology of chemosynthetic ecosystems and deep-sea conservation and environmental management. She began her work in this field in 1982, joining the first biological expedition to hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise. After earning a Master’s degree in ecology from UCLA … Continued
Chris German is a marine geochemist who has spent 25 years exploring Earth’s deep oceans for sites of seafloor fluid flow including, in particular, submarine hydrothermal vents. Growing up in Rochester, about 30 miles SE of London, England, he was surrounded by the influence of the oceans. Both of his grandfathers, his father and both … Continued
Caleb Hsu is a first year undergraduate student at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa. He graduated from Kaiser High School in 2015 and has resided in Honolulu, Hawai`i for ten years. As a major in Global Environmental Science, Caleb is involved in research with Dr. Brian Glazer, working on near-real-time sensor data streaming from … Continued
Michelle Schwengel-Regala is a scientific illustrator and fiber artist, currently working as an Artist in Residence at the University of Hawai’i-Mānoa Art & Art History Department. She studied Entomology & Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and with a graduate certificate in Science Illustration from the University of California at Santa Cruz has collaborated … Continued
Eric Webb is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is an environmental microbiologist who applies molecular techniques to elucidate the underlying genetic systems involved environmental processes. The major scientific focus of his lab is on the physiology and ecology of marine and freshwater cyanobacteria. Underneath this large research … Continued
Dawn Moran is a research associate at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She works with Mak Saito focusing on ocean trace metal chemistry and microbial proteomics. Currently she is developing new methods for protein sample analysis. Dawn processes protein samples from microbial physiological experiments and ocean research cruises. These proteomic profiles have shown to be closely … Continued
Ian Murphy is one of Falkor (too)’s Marine Technicians.
Matthew Newell is one of Falkor’s 3rd Engineers.
Sarah Laperriere is a Ph.D. student in Oceanography as part of the Marine, Estuarine, and Environmental Science program at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory. Her research focuses on nitrous oxide (N2O) dynamics in Chesapeake Bay and off the coast of Southern California at the San Pedro Ocean Time-series station. … Continued
Dr. Alyson Santoro is a microbial oceanographer that specializes in the ecology of nitrogen cycling microbes. Most of her research focuses on the eastern Pacific Ocean, including expeditions to the California Current, Equatorial Pacific, and the Eastern Tropical South Pacific off Peru. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Horn Point Laboratory, part of the … Continued
