Sarai M. Alvarez Zepeda (she/her) was borned and raised in Tijuana, Mexico. She obtained a B.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology from San Diego State University. Before joining Oregon State University for graduate school, she worked as a research assistant investigating the regeneration of sensory neurons in freshwater planarians (Schmidtea mediterranea) at San Diego State … Continued
Ph.D. candidate Scott Wieman divides his time between the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a member of the MIT-WHOI Joint Ph.D. Program where he is split between the Geology and Geophysics and Applied Ocean Science and Engineering departments. One focus of his current research is on understanding the isotopic composition … Continued
Sofia P. Ramalho is a Junior Researcher at the Department of Biology and Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) at the University of Aveiro (Portugal). Her research is focused on the study of the benthic diversity and ecosystem functioning in various deep-sea habitats (including cold seeps, submarine canyons and abyssal plains). She is also … Continued
MSc Tania Figueroa Delgado, Marine Biologist at the University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile. She is involved in studying marine ecosystems, particularly those in the cold waters of the Southern Ocean. Her research focuses on the study of benthic marine fauna and zooplankton (neuston), with a particular interest in species that play a crucial role … Continued
Yerko Ignacio Castillo Vergara is a student of Marine Biology degree at Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile. He also as a student he participates in the benthos laboratory of the University of Valparaíso directed by professor Eulogio Soto. He is currently working on his thesis with benthos samples collected by the scientific cruiser R/V Falkoor Too … Continued
Matilde is geophysicist currently working at OGS (Italy) with an IODP postdoctoral fellowship studying the sediments of the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Previously, she was at IPGP (Paris) using advanced seismic methods to characterize the sediments at the equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge. She specializes in signal and seismic processing but her interests span a variety of geophysical … Continued
Jill Pelto is a climate artist based in Washington in the United States whose work focuses on communicating human-environment connections. She incorporates scientific data into watercolor paintings to share the emotion behind these stories of change, whether overwhelming or hopeful. Her work is inspired by her fieldwork in places like the alpine glaciers in Washington, … Continued
Alastair is a physical volcanologist/geologist at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Currently a NERC Postdoctoral Research Assistant, his research uses both field and stratigraphic studies to reconstruct past volcanological events, investigate long-term eruptive histories and further understand volcanic processes in order to better mitigate volcanic hazards. He has conducted geological fieldwork in over 10 countries … Continued
Amalia Valdivieso is an undergraduate student in the geology degree at the University of Chile. She is currently in her fifth year and is working alongside Rodrigo Fernández, Sion Moraga, and Marianne Heberlein on projects involving sedimentary cores from Patagonia and Antarctica. On this expedition, she is interested in sedimentology work and aims to gain … Continued
Anke Zernack is a senior researcher in the Volcanic Risk Solutions group at Massey University. She uses stratigraphic field mapping together with sedimentological and geochemical approaches to reconstruct volcanic processes, eruption histories, and magmatic evolution of long-lived stratovolcanoes, including remobilisation and resedimentation of volcanic material through debris avalanches and lahars. Her research also investigates primary … Continued
