Meaghan Sorce

Meaghan Sorce is an ichthyologist and natural history specimen collections specialist.  Sher earned her B.F.A in painting and drawing at Monserrat College of Art, and her Master’s in Ecology at Harvard.  In her current role, she assists in managing and caring for the ichthyology collection at the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology.  This historic … Continued

Manuel Cruz Morales

​Manuel Felipe Cruz Morales, a Colombian physician, is a highly accomplished Senior Physician and Maritime Medicine Specialist with a distinguished 21-year medical career. With nine years of dedicated maritime practice, he possesses proven international experience aboard expedition vessels and cruise ships worldwide, adeptly managing the health and safety of both crew and passengers in high-stakes … Continued

Luz Torres Alberto

María Luz Torres Alberto holds a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences with a specialization in Biological Oceanography, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP, Argentina). Her focus is on ocean productivity and carbon cycling, with particular interest in net community production (NCP) derived from O₂/Ar and its … Continued

Lucia Cancelada

I’m an Argentinian analytical chemist (PhD‘25, UC San Diego) with a particular interest in applying metabolomics and mass spectrometry tools to understand microbial carbon processing in marine environments. I’m currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Ingalls lab at University of Washington and part of the Bioreactors team at the Ocean Biogeochemistry Virtual Institute (OBVI), which … Continued

Liz Loutrage

Liz completed her Ph.D. at La Rochelle University in France in 2024, where she investigated the trophic strategies of deep-pelagic fishes in the Bay of Biscay in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, combining stable isotope analyses and trait-based ecological approaches. Liz then joined the Choy Lab in 2025 as a post-doctoral researcher to study the role … Continued

Lee Miller

Lee is a postdoctoral researcher at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Their research focuses on the interactions between animals and microbes in the deep ocean, especially in the context of gut microbiomes.

Joshua Mirkin

I am a PhD candidate from the University of Cape Town, specialising in ocean biogrochemistry, with a focus on the complex dynamics of marine dissolved oxygen. My work is driven by a deep curiosity about the ocean’s role in regulating the global climate system.   My primary research interest lies in understanding the interplay between chemical … Continued

Elan Portner

Elan is interested in the composition and distribution of pelagic forage communities and the ways that predators partition resources. In the Choy Lab, Elan uses stomach content analyses, midwater trawl samples, and statistical methods to address fundamental pelagic ecology questions. He received a Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford University in 2019 and was an NRC … Continued

Delano Dias Schleder

Professor and researcher at the Aquaculture Laboratory (LAq) of the Federal Catarinense Institute, Araquari Campus (IFC–Araquari), and faculty member of the Graduate Program in Animal Production and Health (PPGPSA). I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences (2003, UNIDERP), a Master’s degree (2007) and a PhD (2017) in Aquaculture from the Federal University of Santa … Continued

Dahiana Arcila

I’m an ichthyologist by training and have further specialized in studying macroevolutionary dynamics, leveraging phylogenetics and comparative genomics to explore the evolutionary history of fishes. With over 500 million years of vertebrate evolution, fishes inhabit every aquatic niche from polar seas to hypersaline deserts, displaying unmatched diversity in body plans, genome sizes, and physiological strategies. … Continued