Person: Joyce Miller

Joyce Miller served as Director of Seafloor Data Services for the Hawaii Mapping Research Group from 2012 until her semi-retirement in June 2015.  She still participates in seafloor mapping cruises and is vice chair of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Hydrographic Services Review Panel.  From 2001 to 2011 she worked with NOAA’s Coral … Continued

Person: Melissa Omand

Melissa Omand is an Oceanographer with broad interdisciplinary interests. She applies her training in physics and physical oceanography to examine biogeochemical and ecological processes throughout the upper ocean and twilight zone. She is captivated by the challenges of making observations in a vast, and often harsh, ocean environment, and thrives upon designing or combining sensors, … Continued

Person: Jeremy Werdell

Dr. Jeremy Werdell is a satellite oceanographer from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland.  At GSFC, Jeremy also serves as the Project Scientist for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission to be launched in late 2022.  Jeremy grew up in Vernon, Connecticut.  He received his Bachelors of Arts in Biology … Continued

Person: Dan Carlson

Dr. Dan Carlson is an observational physical oceanographer with interests in ocean transport and mixing. Dr. Carlson received his M.S. in Physical Oceanography at Florida State University in March 2007 and then traveled to the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel on a Fulbright Grant. After the Fulbright, Dr. Carlson returned to Israel to study … Continued

Person: Aimee Neeley

Aimee Neeley, a biological oceanographer, is member of the Field Support Group within the Ocean Ecology Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.  Her group is responsible for ground-truthing data products from ocean color satellites through the collection of biogeochemical samples and optical profiles during field campaigns.  Her research focuses include understanding phytoplankton physiology and … Continued

Person: Ivona Cetinić

Ivona Cetinić is a phytoplankton ecologist, who uses optical tools to shed light on the role that phytoplankton diversity plays in oceanic biogeochemical cycles. She likes submesoscale processes, ocean observing technology (in-situ and remote), pretty silicoflagellates and good olive oil. She got her PhD at University of Southern California, and after a postdoc and research … Continued

Person: Zrinka Ljubešić

Zrinka Ljubešić is a biological oceanographer with research interest in taxonomy and ecology of marine phytoplankton. Her group specializes in taxonomy of marine diatoms, picoeukaryotes and cyanobacteria. More recently her lab focused research on detection of specific phytoplankton groups/species that could serve as bio-tracers of specific water masses and on developing and optimizing methods of … Continued

Person: Seaver Wang

Seaver Wang is a third-year PhD. student studying marine biogeochemistry in Dr. Nicolas Cassar’s research group at Duke University’s Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences. Seaver’s research interests focus on relating links between primary production in the oceans, the cycling of carbon and nutrients, and marine microbial community structure. Originally from Wilton, Connecticut, Seaver earned … Continued

Page: Student Opportunity Participants

Overview Application Process Frequently Asked Questions Previous Student Opportunity Participants A look into the experiences of our Student Opportunity Participants: Joseph Knafelc  February 2021 Seafloor to Seabirds in the Coral Sea Volcanologist-at-Sea: Crystals to Seamounts Georgia Nester March 2020 Illuminating Biodiversity of Ningaloo Canyon An Ocean of Opportunity Sampling and Observing the Deep Sea New Discoveries, … Continued

Person: Colleen Durkin

Dr. Colleen Durkin is an oceanographer and research faculty member at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in Moss Landing, California. She discovered her interest in ocean science while studying at the University of Washington, where she received her BS degrees in Biology and Oceanography.  After a wide variety of research experiences, she became fascinated by … Continued