Dr. Roxanne Beinart is an NSF Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Roxanne received a B.S. in microbiology from Cornell University in 2006 and a PhD from Harvard University in 2013. Her research focuses on understanding the physiology of microbial symbionts and their role in shaping ecosystem processes. … Continued
Jenny Delaney is the lab manager for Dr. Peter Girguis at Harvard University. She received her B.A. in Biology from Ripon College and her M.S. in Marine Science-Biological Oceanography from the University of South Florida. She then worked as a technician at USF, participating in research cruises and performing toxicity assays in response to the Deepwater … Continued
Emily Estes is a graduate student working with Colleen Hansel at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her research explores how minerals interact with organic carbon in marine sediments and what implications those interactions have for microbial life. When not in lab or at sea, she can be found wandering Cape Cod with her dog, Moxie.
Fanny Girard is a third-year Ph.D. student in Dr. Charles Fisher’s lab at the Pennsylvania State University. As part of her thesis, she has been looking at the long-term impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deep-sea coral communities in the Gulf of Mexico using imaging methods. She is mainly focusing on understanding processes … Continued
Dr. Chuck Fisher is a deep-sea biologist whose research interests include the physiology of animals harboring chemoautotrophic symbionts, and the ecology of the communities that they often dominate. He has worked extensively with submersible and robotic vehicles to study these communities in their natural habitats around hydrothermal vents and cold seeps all over the world. Dr. … Continued
Jessica Panzarino is in her second year of graduate school at Harvard University in Prof. Peter R. Girguis’s lab. She studies chemosynthetic symbiosis at hydrothermal vents. In particular, she is interested in how symbiotic associations can expand the metabolic repertoire for the organisms involved. She is also fascinated in how the metabolic processes of microbes … Continued
Dr. Cherisse Du Preez studies the deep-sea spatial ecology of hydrothermal vents. She uses two- and three-dimensional imaging to study the very fine spatial distribution of vent animals in response to physical and chemical environmental conditions (at a centimeter scale). This research will help identify the required living conditions of these unique animal assemblages, proving … Continued
Arunima Sen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE), located more than 200 miles above the Arctic Circle. She received her BA in Biology from Earlham College and her PhD from Pennsylvania State University, where she studied community dynamics and temporal change in Western Pacific hydrothermal vents … Continued
Kevin Köser is a senior researcher at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany. His main research interest lies in novel, automated, camera-based measurement techniques and methodologies for investigating (deep) sea environments and processes. These help to explore, map and monitor (deep) sea habitats, to study phenomena or resources, or to assess … Continued
Rachel Boschen is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Rachel’s current project is investigating the functional ecology of hydrothermal vent communities. What an organism does in an environment, its ‘function’, is increasingly important in understanding how communities work and how sensitive they are to disturbance. Hydrothermal vents experience natural disturbance … Continued
