Tomer is a hydrographer and marine geoscientist affiliated with the Department of Geology at the Israeli National Institute for Oceanography. Tomer received a Category A hydrographer’s diploma from the Ocean Mapping program at the University of New Hampshire. Tomer also holds a B.Sc in Marine and Environmental sciences from Michmoret School of Marine Sciences, and … Continued
Amelia Travers is a Masters student with the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart, Australia. She has a Bachelor of Science with Honours from the University of Queensland in the field of Geography and has used her Masters as an opportunity to gain experience in Marine Biology and Oceanography. During this voyage, Amelia will be … Continued
Jennifer completed her undergraduate degree in Oceanography at the University of Southampton in 2013. She is currently studying ocean wave sources of seismic noise for her doctorate degree. For the last few months, Jennifer has been looking at directional characteristics of a very low frequency noise component, which is caused by the interaction of oceanic … Continued
Professor Mike Coffin, Executive Director of the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania, is a marine geophysicist. His research expertise encompasses interactions between the oceanic environment and the solid Earth. Educated at Dartmouth College (AB) and Columbia University (MA, MPhil, PhD), he has pursued an international career that reflects the boundless … Continued
Andrew Hosie has been with the Western Australian Museum as the Curator of Crustacea and Worms since 2009. During this time, most of his research has focused on the crustacean diversity of the tropical shallow reefs of Western Australia’s Kimberley region and offshore atolls. Andrew has worked with many facets of crustacean biology such as … Continued
Anton joined the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies as an MSc student after completing his Honours degree in oceanography and a brief stint working in environmental management. Following the submission of his thesis on coral records of ENSO patterns in late 2013, he continued on as a research assistant. Anton is a … Continued
Dr. Marco Taviani is a marine geologist and paleobiologist serving at the Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR-CNR) in Bologna as Research Director, and has gained considerable experience working on a variety of projects in the Mediterranean basin, Red Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and Antarctica, both at sea and on land. At present his main … Continued
Ron Thresher got his Ph.D. in fish behavior and ecology at the University of Miami, and did post-doctoral work at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Sydney. He joined the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in 1983, where he has undertaken research on topics ranging from the ecology of larval fish … Continued
Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi is Winthrop Professor of Coastal Oceanography at The University of Western Australia, in the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering and the Oceans Institute. He is also the Leader of the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG). He received his PhD in Coastal Oceanography in 1985 from the University College … Continued
Lara Garcia-Corral is a Spanish Research Associate at the University of Western Australia, conducting research on metabolic rates and drivers of the plankton communities in the Western Coast of Australia. She is completing her Ph.D in the Spanish National Research Council, on the metabolic balance of plankton communities at a global scale and metabolic responses … Continued
