Ben Radford

Dr. Ben Radford is a spatial modeller and ecologist with the Sustainable Use of North West Ecosystems Marine group at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), Townsville, Australia. Ben has an honours degree in Marine Biology from James Cook (Queensland, Australia) and PhD from University of Western Australia (Western Australia). Ben’s primary interests are … Continued

Cordelia Moore

Cordelia Moore is a joint Research Associate with Curtin University, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and Western Australian Fisheries.  She has a PhD in Marine Science and a Masters degree in Remote Sensing. Her research is focused on assessing and improving the spatial management of marine species.  Currently she is examining the sustainable … Continued

Greg Ivey

Professor Greg Ivey, the Chief Scientist for this cruise, is the Deputy Dean of Research in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at the University of Western Australia (UWA), a member of the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering at UWA, and a member of the Oceans Institute at UWA. As a physical … Continued

John Greene

John Greene is a first year graduate student at Texas A&M University. He is working towards his PhD in geophysics, with multiple projects planned using marine seismic and magnetic data. His previous research project during his senior year at Michigan State University involved an optical and acoustic characterization of lithified carbonate and other seafloor features … Continued

Vaughn Robla

Vaughn Robla is a graduate student researcher at the University of Houston. She holds a BS in Physics (summa cum laude) from Texas State, as well as a degree in Aviation Management and a Private Pilot license. She is a Geophysics Master’s Candidate at UH under advisor Dr. William Sager and her research focuses on … Continued

Andrew Pineda

Andrew graduated in 2012 from the University of Houston with a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and a minor in Computer Science. After graduation Andrew begin working full time processing seismic data for Seismic Exchange Inc. He is currently finishing his Masters in Geophysics at the University of Houston. Andrew’s research will be focused on … Continued

Jennifer Welch

Jennifer Welch is a Geophysics graduate student at the University of Houston.  Her thesis work includes the monitoring and measuring of the horizontal and vertical movement due to subsidence and faults in the surrounding Montgomery County area using permanent GPS stations installed by her and her team.  She graduated from Texas A&M Galveston in 2012 … Continued

Jinchang Zhang

Dr Jinchang Zhang is a marine geophysicist, and has been using high-resolution geophysical methods to study the oceanic crustal structure and seafloor morphology for the past decade in Pacific Ocean and South China Sea. Many of his research interests are oceanic plateau evolution, underwater volcano formation, mid-ocean-ridge and mantle plume interaction, plate tectonics, multichannel seismic … Continued

Rachel Edwards

Rachel Edwards is a MS Coastal and Marine System Science student at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi and a graduate research assistant at Harte Research Institute’s Coastal and Marine Geospatial Lab. She graduated with a BA in 2014 from the University of North Carolina with highest honors in Geography with a concentration in GIS and … Continued

John Neese

John is a Geophysics Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston.  His specialty is seismic-style processing and interpretation of electromagnetic waves recorded in layered earth media, with an emphasis on marine CSEM (Controlled Source ElectroMagnetics).  John is a lifelong learner, holding recent Master of Science Degrees from … Continued