Person: Ekin Tilic

Ekin received his BSc. degree in biology in 2010 and continued his graduate education with a MSc. degree in Organismic, Evolutionary and Paleobiology from the University of Bonn. Both his bachelor’s and master’s research was conducted in the lab of Prof. Dr. Heike Wägele at the Zoological Research Museum Koenig. He studied the evolution of … Continued

Person: Rob Harris

Rob Harris is an expert in marine heat flow.  He earned a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Utah and completed post-docs at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami and the Masacchusetts Institute of Technology.  He is currently a professor of geophysics at Oregon State … Continued

Person: Greg Rouse

Greg Rouse is a professor of marine biology in the Marine Biology Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and is also curator of the Benthic Invertebrate Collection at Scripps. He specializes in the study of animal biodiversity. Greg’s deep-sea research interests include the study of new hydrothermal vent animals from … Continued

Person: Daan Speth

Daan Speth is a postdoc at Caltech, working on the microbial communities in diverse extreme environments. He applies a mix of bioinformatics and wet lab methods to gain insight in the role of microbes in the environment. Prior to his work at Caltech, Daan obtained his Ph.D. from the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, … Continued

Person: Victoria Orphan

Victoria Orphan is a geobiologist studying the interactions between microorganisms in extreme environments including deep-sea methane seeps and vents. She currently holds the James Irvine Professorship of Environmental Science and Geobiology in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech. Orphan received her Ph.D. in the Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology program at the … Continued

Person: Shana Goffredi

Dr. Shana Goffredi is an Associate Professor of Biology at Occidental College. Her research interests mainly concern beneficial symbiotic partnerships between bacteria and marine invertebrates. For 25 years, she has been exploring the deep ocean. She focuses on the physiology and biochemistry of deep-sea symbiotic systems, within the context of ecological questions and how environmental … Continued

Person: Nicole Pedersen

Nicole Pedersen is a staff researcher in the Sandin Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where she works on the 100 Island Challenge, a project which aims to describe and understand the variation and structure of coral reefs across the globe. For this project she oversees processing of large area imagery, using photogrammetry to render … Continued

Log Post: Perpetual Motion

The time that I spent on R/V Falkor was filled with first experiences: sleeping on a ship, watching sonar mapping take place in real time, dancing in a dark garage, being seasick, and finding a way to do a site-specific performance in a venue that I never imagined. Data and Design After finding my sea … Continued

Person: Brandon Enalls

Brandon Enalls is graduate student in the Girguis Laboratory at Harvard University and is interested in better understanding the physiology of microbes that live in “extreme” environments. More specifically, his graduate research is focused on microbes living inside of hydrothermal vent chimney walls and how they use redox chemistry to obtain energy from the minerals … Continued

Person: Tyler Garvin

Tyler served four years as an infantryman in the United States Army before earning his B.Sc. in Biology from the University of San Francisco. He spent three years as a research associate mapping distant-acting transcriptional enhancers in the Mammalian Functional Genomics Laboratory at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Currently, Tyler is a Ph.D. student in the … Continued