Brian Shiro is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, where he applies geophysical exploration techniques to search the subsurface for resources that could support life on other planets. He is also a geophysicist at the NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, where he applies operational … Continued
Nicky Wright is currently completing a Ph.D. at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on the effect of oceanic gateways on palaeoclimate throughout the Cenozoic. Her previous work included refining the tectonic history of the Pacific Ocean basin from the Late Cretaceous (83 Ma) to present day, and investigating the relative Pacific seafloor … Continued
Harrison Togia is currently a graduate research assistant at the University of Hawaii in the Department of Geology and Geophysics. Born on Fort Lewis Army Base in Washington State, he was raised into a strict military family in the Parkland area of Tacoma. As a youth his interests were in mathematics and the sciences, however … Continued
Madhavi Patterson is currently completing an honours in geology after completing a B.S. (geology & geophysics, geography) at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has worked with the USYD Geocoastal Research Group on projects focused on understanding how fossil coral reefs on One Tree Island in the Great Barrier Reef have responded to sea level … Continued
Josh Tucker has been working as a fisheries observer with NOAA’s Pacific Islands Regional Office for the last two years. Over the last year he helped to deploy a series of hydrophones during fishing operations to record marine mammal vocalizations to help identify and understand their interactions with commercial fishing gear. During this cruise, Josh … Continued
Jeremy C. Taylor is an AUV project manager/seabed mapping specialist with the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division at Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. He has been mapping the ocean floor with NOAA since 2004. He started in Alaska supporting NOAA’s effort to maintain U.S. nautical charts and is currently in Hawaii collecting multibeam data to help define benthic … Continued
Dr. Daniel Wagner is a marine ecologist with NOAA’s Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. He has conducted research on Hawaii’s mesophotic coral ecosystems (reefs found at depths between 30-150 m) for close to a decade, and has participated in numerous expeditions that have surveyed such deeper habitats using technical SCUBA diving, manned submersibles, and remotely operated … Continued
Belinda has a B.S. (Hons) in marine science (2011) from the University of Sydney, Australia. Her honours thesis focused on variations in coralgal assemblages and their palaeoenvironmental significance for the Holocene “turn on” of the Southern Great Barrier Reef. In 2012, Belinda began her P.hd. with a focus on drilling fossil reefs of the Great … Continued
Joyce Miller has served as director of seafloor data services for the Hawaii Mapping Research Group at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Univ. of Hawaii, since Dec. 2011. From 2001 to 2011 she worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Coral Reef Conservation Program at the Pacific Islands Benthic … Continued
Dr. John R. Smith is an Oceanographer at the University Hawaii in the School of Ocean and Earth Science & Technology where he primarily carries out data processing and research. He has used various acoustical and in situ methods to study the seafloor and sub-seafloor in many of the world’s oceans, specializing in multibeam bathymetry … Continued
