Tania Figueroa

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 Castillo

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

Giulia Matilde Ferrante

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

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 Hodgetts

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

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

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

Colombina Valdés Valenzuela

Colombina Valdés Valenzuela is a marine biologist from the Austral University of Chile and is part of the Laboratory of Biological Oceanography (LOCEB) at the same institution. Her career has focused on high-latitude research within the Center for the Dynamics of High Latitude Marine Ecosystems (IDEAL), aiming to understand the effects of climate change in … Continued

Diego Droguett

Diego Droguett Valenzuela is an undergrade student of Marine Biology. He is currently working on his undergraduate thesis, which focuses on the study of the composition of the benthic macrofauna of a fjord in Chilean Patagonia, and its relationship with sediment geochemistry. Since last year, Diego has assisted in the research of the Observation Program … Continued

Gianluca Fedele Ansaldi

Gianluca Fedele Ansaldi is an undergraduate student of Marine Biology at Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile. He is currently dedicated to studying deep-sea benthic ecology, biodiversity, and taxonomy, mostly annelids and macrofaunal communities of the Southeast Pacific Ocean, in his undergraduate thesis. He’s also a firefighter volunteer in Valparaiso, Chile. Gianluca in 2023 participated as a … Continued