Communicator at Instituto del Mar del Perú – IMARPE. She works in the development of communication contents and scientific dissemination of IMARPE’s research lines and projects, for digital and traditional media. In addition, she contributes to the planning of communication plans and institutional image. She is specialized in corporate communication, environmental management and scientific dissemination. … Continued
Ursula Mendoza is a Marine Biologist and holds a Doctorate in Natural Science from the Bremen University at the Center of Marine Tropical Ecology. She has a BS in Marine Biology from Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro and a MS in Environmental Geochemistry at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. She was a postdoctoral researcher for … Continued
Víctor Aramayo is a biologist working in the diversity and ecology of benthos (including exploited & threatened species) across large-size spectra. As a past Swedmark-Grant awarded (Ghent University, Belgium), has a particular interest in tiny organisms influencing the metabolism and function of marine ecosystems. Major environmental scenarios where Víctor works include oxygen-deficient and anoxic waters … Continued
Victoria Baca is a student at the Centro de Astrobiología in Madrid, Spain.
Julian Charrière is a French-Swiss artist based in Berlin. A seminal voice in Contemporary Art today, Charrière has been widely exhibited across esteemed institutions and museums around the globe. Marshalling performance, sculpture and photography, his projects often stem from remote fieldwork in liminal or discarded locations, such as volcanoes, icefields and radioactive sites. By encountering … Continued
I earned my MS at the University of Alaska Fairbanks under the supervision of Tom Shirley and my Ph.D. degree at the University of South Carolina in 1999 under the supervision of Bruce Coull, studying the genetic population structure of benthic copepods. After a 3-year postdoctoral position at the University of Chicago (supervised by Dick … Continued
Dr. Aparna Banerjee works as an academic-researcher at the Institute of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Talca. She is also the principal investigator of prestigious national projects such as Fondecyt Regular of ANID and INACH Regular of the Chilean Antarctic Institute. She is the author/co-author/communicator of more than 60 … Continued
Caitlyn Hubric is a Master’s student at the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT), supervised by Dr. Andrew Palmer. Her research focuses on the recycling of materials through decomposers and other microorganisms. She has received multiple awards for her undergraduate research focused on sustainable space exploration. For this expedition, she is particularly interested in finding microorganisms … Continued
Drew Palmer is an associate professor at the Florida Institute of Technology in the departments of: (i) Ocean Engineering and Marine Science, (ii) Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and (iii) Biomedical Engineering and Science. His areas of interest include ‘social’ microbial behaviors such as quorum sensing, plant-microbial interactions, and the development of sustainable space agriculture in … Continued
