Dr. Jason R. Graff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University. His current roles include positions within the NASA PACE (Plankton Aerosol Cloud ocean Ecosystem) Science Team, NASA PACE Validation Science Team and the Biological Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program (Bio-GO-SHIP). Dr. Graff’s research spans … Continued
Jacob Winnikoff is a postdoctoral scholar in the Girguis Lab at Harvard University. He studies the effects of pressure, temperature, and other stressors on diverse deep-sea life, with a special focus on the fatty (lipid) membrane that surrounds all cells. As a member of the November 2025 SPARC expedition off of Uruguay, Jacob will profile … Continued
Ian Hughes is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. His research interests focus on the physiology and evolution of animal-microbe symbioses, with an emphasis on mollusks. He particularly enjoys developing and testing new technology and incubation systems for studying animals and microbes in marine environments. When he’s … Continued
Emily Hyde is an Ecology, Evolution and Behavior PhD Candidate in Dr. Brett Baker’s Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a B.S.A.G. in Environmental Science from Oklahoma State University and an M.S. in Water Resources Science from University of Minnesota Duluth. Emily is an aquatic microbial ecologist with research interests focused … Continued
Emily Aguilar-Pine is a research assistant in the lab of Dr. Brett Baker in the department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research in Dr. Baker’s lab revolves around metagenomic data generation and analysis of bacteria and archaea living in marine sediments. Her main goal in this work is to … Continued
Dr. Danilo L. Calliari is an associate professor in the Oceanography and Marine Ecology laboratory (Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences), Faculty of Sciences of Universidad de la República, Uruguay. Main research interests by Dr. Calliari include the ecophysiology of plankton and environmental modulation of their vital rates, the biogeochemistry of carbon in the pelagic … Continued
Cecilia Alonso is a microbial ecologist and Associate Professor at the Centro Universitario Regional del Este (Universidad de la República, Uruguay). Her research focuses on aquatic microbial communities, particularly bacterioplankton, and their role in processes of the carbon cycle, as well as in the development of microbial indicators of environmental quality. She is interested in … Continued
Dr. Brett J Baker is an associate professor in the departments of Integrative Biology and Marine Science (Marine Science Institute) at the University of Texas Austin. He is the co-director of the Center for Planetary Systems and Habitability at UT Austin. Dr. Baker’s research focused on understanding the ecology and evolution of microbes that have … Continued
Christine Laquet is a French visual artist whose practice bridges environmental inquiry, speculative thinking, and embodied experience. Her research spans meteorites carrying traces of life’s origins, cyanobacteria that later gave rise to it, the return of the wolf as a figure of fear and resilience, and, more recently, the ocean — where micro- and macro-organisms … Continued
