Cynthia Matzke holds a Master of Advanced Studies from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. She possesses a decade-long cohesive background in journalism, producing packages and assets for NBC Universal, Akaku television, and on independent documentaries. Her goal is to foster conservation efforts by pairing ocean science research with stunning imagery … Continued
Dr. David Barclay is a new faculty member in Dalhousie University’s Department of Oceanography after recently completing a post-doctoral scholar fellowship at the Deep Ocean Exploration Institute at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr. Barclay has a B.Sc. in physics from McGill University and received a Ph.D. in 2011 from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the … Continued
Professor Douglas H. Bartlett received his Ph.D. in microbial molecular biology at the University of Illinois in 1985. After several years as a postdoctoral scholar and Research Scientist at the Agouron Institute in La Jolla he assumed a faculty position at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, in 1989, where he now … Continued
Billie Lee is an interdisciplinary artist currently in her second year of the American Studies Ph.D. program at the University of Hawai‛i at Mānoa. She recently directed and produced the documentary film Moving Home, which premiered at the Hawai‛i International Film Festival in 2012. She is happy to be helping with video documentation and editing … Continued
Born and raised in South Dakota, Adam received his B.S. in Biology from the University of Minnesota in 2009. He spent the next two years in Omaha, Nebraska studying the acoustic communication of tigers in a collaboration between the Omaha Zoo and Boys Town National Research Hospital. Currently, he is in his third year of … Continued
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
