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Several days ago, we visited Isla del Coco, the only one of this chain of seamounts that extends above the ocean’s surface. The previous day, we explored along Seamount 7 with Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) SuBastian, climbing a steep underwater wall of volcanic basalt. As we hiked up the steep cliffs of Isla del Coco, … Continued
Discovering a ‘new’ species is a thrill and a privilege. The realization comes with a jolt of excitement: you may be the first person on Earth ever to set eyes on this creature! Many people never get to experience this rush; most biologists will never even describe a new species. Us deep-sea biologists are a lucky … Continued
Costa Rica es un país pequeño (mide 51,100 km2) en América Central con una gran área marina, más de once veces más grande que su área terrestre: 589,683 km2, o el 92% de todo el país. Tiene costas en el Mar Caribe y en el Océano Pacífico. No solo el área marina es grande, sino … Continued
Costa Rica is a small country in Central America: it measures 51,100 km2, but it also has a huge marine area, more than eleven times its terrestrial area: 589,683 km2, or 92% of the entire country. It has coasts on the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Not only is the marine area large, but most … Continued
Zac is a research technician in the Joye Research Group at the University of Georgia. He earned a B.S. in Biology and a M.S. in the Biological Sciences from Youngstown State University in 2015 and 2017 respectively. He’s interested in studying microorganisms that inhabit methane-rich environments, especially those involved in the anaerobic oxidation of methane.
Rachael Karns is a first year Ph.D student in Dr. Mandy Joye’s lab at the University of Georgia and is extremely excited to be returning to the Gulf of California on her second research cruise. She first earned her B.Sc in Biology at Roanoke College in 2015, and went on to achieve her M.Sc in … Continued
Charlotte is currently in her first year of her MS program at Coastal Carolina University’s Coastal Marine and Wetland Studies program. She works in the Groundwater Discharge Measurement Facility, as a member of Rick Peterson’s lab, where she studies submarine groundwater flows in bacterial mats on the sea floor using naturally occurring radium isotopes. Her thesis … Continued
Dr. Christian Borowski is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany. He has a diploma in biology and a Ph.D. in marine biology from the University of Hamburg. Germany. His work in the Department of Symbiosis at the Max Planck Institute centers around chemosynthetic symbioses at deep sea hydrothermal … Continued
Of Mexican nationality, formed in the Postgraduate in Earth Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Carmen specializes in the Hydroacoustic Processing (Multibeam Bathymetry and Seismic Reflection of high resolution). She has experience in Marine Geophysical Research campaigns in Mexico since 2011, including studies in the Submarine Canyon Balsas, Guaymas Basin and Lost Folding … Continued
Andy Montgomery is pursuing a PhD in Marine Sciences from the University of Georgia. He is a 5th year graduate student in Mandy Joye’s lab. Andy studies how the dynamic chemistry of the ocean affects microbial activity. More specifically, he studies how carbon and nitrogen availability dictate microbial processes such as methane or ammonia oxidation. … Continued
