Artist and early-career scientist with over ten years of experience in illustration and design. Committed to an interdisciplinary approach to marine conservation, he creates art to foster public interest in science. He received his Bachelor’s from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2011 and his M.A.S. in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation from SIO in … Continued
Currently, Xenia Barnes is a graduate scholar at the University of California, San Diego, studying phylogenetics and the factors that drive species evolution while pursuing a Master’s degree in Biological Oceanography. She is studying at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography under the Rouse Spineless Lab, which focuses on identifying benthic invertebrates worldwide. As for her … Continued
Danya Awshah is a second-year Ph.D. Student in Biological Oceanography at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She is from Tampa, Florida, where she completed degrees in Environmental Science and Policy and Chemistry at the University of South Florida. At Scripps, she is a member of the Décima Lab, a zooplankton ecology lab that investigates a … Continued
Pilar Quinteros (Chile, 1988). Grew up in the south or Chile, now lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. Bachelor of Arts from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2011), studying the MA of Arts at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW. In her work she combines drawing, volume, performance and video, all media that … Continued
Anne Duk Hee Jordan (born 1978 in Korea) is an artist living and working in Berlin. She studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and the Institut für Raumexperimente with Olafur Eliasson at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 2023, she has been a Professor of Digital Media at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. In the … Continued
Siara Mitchell is a current graduate student in the Rouse lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The Rouse lab focuses on the diversity and identification of benthic invertebrates worldwide, with particular emphasis on chemosynthetic deep-sea environments and whalefalls. Her M.S. research project involves identifying and describing new species of pycnogonids (sea spiders) from methane seeps … Continued
Milan Sengthep, a Thai-American Ph.D. student in the Biological Sciences department at Lehigh University, studies deep-sea ecology under Dr. Santiago Herrera in the Oceans Research Center. She explores deep-sea ecosystems through the lens of environmental DNA (eDNA) to uncover patterns of biodiversity and ecosystem function in unexplored ocean habitats. Her research focuses on using molecular … Continued
Morgan Will is currently a PhD candidate in the Cordes Lab at Temple University, studying the spatial distribution and community structure of cold-water benthic invertebrates. Her current research focuses on Lophelia reef communities, exploring and modeling the links between reef structure and associated invertebrate community distributions. She is also investigating ocean carbonate chemistry, developing models … Continued
Dr. María Emilia Bravo is a marine biologist who holds a permanent position as a scientific researcher at IGeBA (CONICET) and the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires (FCEN-UBA). Dr. Bravo specializes in the benthic ecology of invertebrates and pioneered the first discoveries of chemosynthetic ecosystems in Argentina, both in coastal … Continued
Lisandro Scarrone is a Biology student at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Since 2023, he has been working under the supervision of Dr. Emilia Bravo on projects focused on the ecology of invertebrates from deep-sea cold seep ecosystems. His work includes the processing and taxonomic classification of benthic samples, as well as field and … Continued
