Person: Bill Chadwick

Bill Chadwick is a Research Professor at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon, and is acting-head of NOAA/PMEL’s Earth-Ocean Interactions Program.  He became interested in studying volcanoes when he was in college and Mount St. Helens erupted.  He majored in geology at Colorado College, where he received his B.A.  After college, … Continued

Cruise: Underwater Fire: Studying the Submarine Volcanoes of Tonga

Aboard R/V Falkor, Dr. Ken Rubin and his research team will visit one of the most active underwater volcano sites in the world, the Meta Volcano group. There they will work to obtain a detailed geological understanding of up to 12 different submarine volcanoes, attempting to do this across a suite of volcanos for the very first time.

Person: Randi Rotjan

Randi Rotjan, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor at Boston University in the Department of Biology and the BU Marine Program. Her research focuses mainly on symbiosis and ecophysiology, behavioral ecology, conservation biology, and urban ecology. Rotjan has been supporting the Phoenix Islands Protected Area science since 2008, and has been leading PIPA science since … Continued

Cruise: Discovering Deep Sea Corals of the Phoenix Islands

The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) is the largest and deepest UNESCO World Heritage Site on Earth. Approximately the size of California, PIPA was the first Marine Protected Area (MPA) of its kind. In October, Dr. Erik Cordes (Temple University) and his team will explore never seen before seamounts and atolls within PIPA with R/V Falkor and ROV SuBastian.

Person: Erik Cordes

Dr. Erik Cordes is a Full Professor and the Vice Chair of Biology at Temple University. He has worked on the ecology of deep-sea corals and hydrocarbon seeps for over 20 years. He has spent over 16 months at sea on over 30 research cruises, 10 as Chief Scientist. The research in his lab is … Continued

Person: Daniel Vogt

Daniel M. Vogt received the B.S. degree in computer science from the Engineering School of Geneva, in 2005, and the M.S. degree in microengineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), in 2011 with a minor in Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship. A robotics enthusiast, he achieved his M.S. thesis at Harvardís Microrobotics Laboratory, … Continued

Person: Haunani Kane

Haunani Kane, a native of Kailua, Oahu is currently pursuing a PhD in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.  Haunani uses cores taken from fossil reefs, sandy coastal plains, and wetlands to reconstruct the evolution of Pacific Islands in response to changes in past sea-level.  Most reef islands across the Pacific … Continued

Publication: Anderson, M., Chadwick, Jr. W., Hannington, M., Merle, S.,  Resing, J., Baker, E., Butterfield, D., Walker, S., and N. Augustin. (2017). Geological interpretation of volcanism and segmentation of the Mariana back-arc spreading center between 12.7°N and 18.3°N, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 18, 2240–2274, doi:10.1002/2017GC006813.  [This publication is available as OPEN ACCESS].

Anderson, M., Chadwick, Jr. W., Hannington, M., Merle, S.,  Resing, J., Baker, E., Butterfield, D., Walker, S., and N. Augustin. (2017). Geological interpretation of volcanism and segmentation of the Mariana back-arc spreading center between 12.7°N and 18.3°N, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 18, 2240–2274, doi:10.1002/2017GC006813.  [This publication is available as OPEN ACCESS].

Person: Shellie Habel

Shellie Habel is a PhD student studying Coastal Geology at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is part of the Coastal Geology Group, which is an affiliation of researchers, lead by Dr. Chip Fletcher, who conduct studies regarding shoreline change, carbonate geology, and coastal morphodynamics. … Continued

Kenna Harmony Rubin

Person: Kenna Rubin

Kenna Harmony Rubin is a geochemist, geologist and volcanologist who works on land and at sea. In the oceans she uses visual, chemical, and sonar observations of the sea floor, as well as laboratory-based studies of rock samples collected from the sea to study active and very recent geological processes. She focuses on eruption histories … Continued