Gracie Babineaux is a Ph.D. candidate in Earth and Energy Sciences at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, specializing in benthic foraminifera in methane seep environments. Her research focuses on understanding the stable isotopic response of benthic foraminifera to methane and their biodiversity and ecological roles. With the help of funding from the National Science … Continued
Jeffrey Marlow is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Boston University, where his lab studies the functional links between microbes and their environment at deep-sea methane seeps and hydrothermal vents, salt marsh sediments, and volcanoes. This work combines metabolic activity measurements and microscopic imaging to see individual microbes and their mineralogical surroundings “as they really … Continued
Lucía Villar-Muñoz is a Postdoc researcher in the Department of Geophysics at the Universidad de Chile, where her focus is to search the energy and mineral resources of the Chilean continental shelf. She has been studying gas hydrates in the margin of Chile for more than 10 years and mapping the areas where to find … Continued
Marcela Cornejo was born in Santiago, Chile. She is Oceanographer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso with a Doctorate in Oceanography from the University of Concepción, Chile. Marcela is a full professor at the Escuela de Ciencias del Mar, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, and director of the Laboratory of Marine Biogeochemistry of … Continued
Manuel Castillo is Physical Oceanographer, Adjunct Professor of the Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile. He is researcher of the Marine Observation Center for Observation and Analysis of the Coastal Ocean (COSTAR-UV). In addition, Manuel is part of the Anillo SEALS UV center and the Center of Oceanographic Instrumentation (CIO-UdeC). The focus of its research is being … Continued
Marlen Tham is a Marine Biology M.Sc. student at the University of Bremen in Germany. She is currently finishing her thesis on the biodiversity of dinoflagellates at Senckenberg am Meer German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB) in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Her research focuses on evaluating the taxonomy through morphology and morphometry. This work combines microscopic … Continued
Miles Harbury is a Ph.D. student at Oregon State University College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences interested in the transport and magnetism of sediment and the story told of environmental change. Current research is focused on the development of a regional paleomagnetic geochronology based Heinrich ice-rafting events in the Labrador Sea during the Quaternary.
Pamela Karina Muñoz Linford is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the COPAS Coastal Research Center (FB210021), Universidad de Concepción, Chile. She also participates in the OMARE (Observatorio Marino Reloncaví) working group. Her research focuses on understanding the interactions and variability across different layers and contexts, both spatial and temporal. Previously, during her PhD, Pamela concentrated on … Continued
Práxedes Muñoz is a Full Professor at the Department of Marine Biology at the Faculty of Marine Sciences, Universidad Católica del Norte (FCM-UCN), Chile, and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Biology and Applied Ecology (dr-BEA). She received her Degree in Marine Biology and later her PhD in Oceanography at Universidad de Concepción, Chile. She … Continued
