Sarah Nicholas is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Soil, Water and Climate at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation research is identifying and describing the chemistry and mineralogy of solid-phase sources of arsenic to well water in western Minnesota. Sarah expects to complete her PhD in spring of 2015 and is currently preparing … Continued
Chris Taylor provides electrical system design, leadership, and engineering support for underwater vehicle systems at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s (WHOI) Deep Submergence Laboratory. His areas of interests include electrical systems architecture and performance, fiber optics, and troubleshooting. After completing his B.S./ M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Florida Tech, he spent five years working for the … Continued
Anna Williams works for Dr. Brian Glazer as a lab technician in the University of Hawaii School of Oceanography. Anna performs a variety of chemical analyses to measure products of microbial activity in ocean sediments. Before analyzing the waters around Oahu, Anna studied nutrient cycling off the southeastern United States and uranium remediation strategies at … Continued
Isabelle Baconnais is a graduate student at the Institute of European Marine Science at Plouzané in France. Her research focuses on copper stable isotopes measurement in seawater, as part of the GEOTRACES international program on marine trace elements. Aboard the Falkor, Isabelle will be sampling and filtering seawater for the observation of chemical transformation in … Continued
Justin Fujii is a mechanical engineer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with a degree in aerospace engineering from the University of California, San Diego. He has worked on vehicles such as the Polar ROV andAlvin, but predominantly spends most of his time working with the AUV Sentry. Justin has participated in a variety of … Continued
Gabrielle Weiss received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in Marine Sciences, where she studied particulate inorganic carbon dynamics. She also contributed to the development of an in situ particulate inorganic carbon sensor. Gabrielle is currently a graduate student at the University of Hawaii Manoa, studying trace metals and is in the … Continued
Carl Kaiser is a Research Engineer and AUV Operations Manager in Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Johanna Hansen is an engineer for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Deep Submergence Lab. While on the RV Falkor, Johanna will work with the AUV Sentry in close collaboration with both the mechanical and data teams. They will execute the launches, configure Sentry, and manage and process the data collected on dives. When not in … Continued
Michael Ottman is a researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Brandy Toner at the University of Minnesota. The Toner lab focuses on understanding the biogeochemical processes driving iron, sulfur, and arsenic cycling in glacial aquifers in Minnesota. Michael’s work concentrates on sedimentary arsenic and investigating fungal remediation of mine effluent. His role on the Falkor … Continued
Dr. Olivier Rouxel is a geochemist at theFrench Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer) who has dedicated his career to studying metal isotopes in marine environments. Dr. Rouxel defended his PhD in 2002 at the “Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine”, and, after a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Cambridge in England in 2003, … Continued
