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
Chloe is an undergraduate student studying at Whitman College. She is working towards a degree in Biology, focusing on her interest in marine sciences. Chloe spent one year as an intern at the University of California, Davis in the Marine Evolution and Ecology Lab studying the genetic connections between populations of crabs to better understand … Continued
Logan is a graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). His research focuses on the influence of high hydrostatic pressure on the microbial life present in the deep ocean. It is hypothesized that these communities are piezophilic, adapted to the in situ pressures found in these extreme … Continued
Anna Downing is an undergraduate student at Whitman College. She is currently a junior Biology major with a specific interest in marine biology. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Anna’s interest in the ocean was largely cultivated by working for two years at the Seattle Aquarium as a youth interpreter, where she learned about marine … Continued
Tim Shank is a deep-sea biologist and a tenured associate scientist in the Biology Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research focuses on the ecology and evolution of fauna inhabiting deep-ocean hydrothermal, seamount, canyon and hadal/trench systems. Tim received his undergraduate degree in Biology and German from the University of North Carolina at … Continued
Dr. Jeffrey Drazen is an ecologist interested in studying the role of fishes in deep sea habitats and the structure and function of deep-sea food webs in general. He earned his PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2000 working under Dr. Ken Smith on the feeding ecology of bathyal and abyssal fishes. After graduation … Continued
Will Snyder is a masters student at the University of Rhode Island working on a degree in Ocean Engineering. His research focuses on autonomy and control of underwater vehicles. He will be operating a Lagrangian Float vehicle this cruise that drifts over the bottom and produces photo-mosaics of the seabed along it’s track. The vehicle … Continued
Jeff is a M.S. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. His current project is using the Wave Glider for sea-floor geodesy. In the summer 2013, he interned for Liquid Robotics at their Engineering and Testing Facility in Kawaihae, HI. As an undergrad, he worked for the Field Robotics Laboratory as a research … Continued
Lachlan is a PhD student at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research topic concerns algorithms enabling sharing of information between robots to better determine their position in environments where communication is limited. Previously he has been involved in other underwater robotics expeditions to the Mediterranean Sea, Lake … Continued
Eric Timmons is currently a Ph.D. student in the MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering. He is researching the application of risk-bounded programming to long-lived fleets of autonomous underwater vehicles. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. He conducted his Masters research on fast, … Continued
