Thomas is a Ph.D. candidate in zoology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He has been working with autonomous deep-sea landers for the last seven years and specialises in the scavenging fish that are attracted to them. Of particular interest to him are the boundaries and limits to where fish are found and why they … Continued
Stuart Piertney is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Aberdeen. He has over 25 years of experience using molecular genetic tools to explore aspects of the ecology, evolution and conservation of a broad taxonomic range of marine organisms. Professor Piertney’s focus on this cruise will be the hadal amphipods,asking questions about how the different … Continued
Best job on island! Best job in the Pacific! That’s how Linda Tatreau describes her twenty-five years teaching marine biology on the tropical island paradise of Guam. Linda is also an advisor for Marine Mania, a group of high school students working to protect the marine environment for over 20 years. Linda received her undergraduate … Continued
Eleanna has a BSc honour in Marine biology and Oceanography (2011) from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Her undergraduate thesis focused on influences from anthropogenic disturbance and sediment type on benthic communities in Southern North Sea. Furthermore, in 2012 Eleanna got her MSc in Aquaculture and Environment in the University of Stirling, United Kingdom. … Continued
Caitlin Plowman is a recent graduate of the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology and will be beginning a Masters program there in January 2015, under the direction of Dr. Craig Young. Caitlin will be studying the reproduction and development of mussels found around cold seeps in the deep sea. During her undergraduate work, Caitlin went … Continued
Patricia Fryer, Ph.D., is interested in all aspects of lithospheric plate subduction, the process that forms ocean trenches and island arcs. She is a veteran of 46 marine research expeditions, often in the role of chief scientist. Fryer’s research has focused on the very deepest parts of the Mariana Trench, including the question of why … Continued
Dr. Clifton Nunnally is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hawaii at Manoa focused on creating new instruments capable of performing in situ experiments in ocean trenches. Dr. Nunnally successfully built and deployed an in situ respirometer that measured invertebrate respiration in the Kermadec Trench earlier this year. During this cruise to the Mariana … Continued
Dr. Alan Jamieson is a senior lecturer at the University of Aberdeen’s Oceanlab in the UK. In 2004, he received his PhD for the thesis entitles “Autonomous Lander technology for Biological Research at mid-water, Abyssal and hadal Depths”. Since then, his research has focussed on the science and technology in the biological exploration of the … Continued
Mackenzie is working toward a doctoral degree in Marine Biology at the University of Hawaii. She developed a passion for deep-sea biology while working at Whitman College on adaptations to high pressure. She has participated in research cruises to the Kermadec and New Hebrides Trenches in the Southern Pacific Ocean. After earning her Bachelor’s degree … Continued
Dr. Jill Bourque is a marine benthic ecologist in the Benthic Ecology Lab at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Southeast Ecological Science Center. She specializes in taxonomic identification and benthic community analysis of invertebrates from coastal and deep-sea habitats, including worm reefs, deep-sea corals, canyon systems, cold seeps, trenches, and seamounts. Her research interests include community … Continued
