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Jenny Delaney is the lab manager for Dr. Peter Girguis at Harvard University.  She received her B.A. in Biology from Ripon College and her M.S. in Marine Science-Biological Oceanography from the University of South Florida. She then worked as a technician at USF, participating in research cruises and performing toxicity assays in response to the Deepwater … Continued

Jessica Panzarino is in her second year of graduate school at Harvard University in Prof. Peter R. Girguis’s lab.  She studies chemosynthetic symbiosis at hydrothermal vents.  In particular, she is interested in how symbiotic associations can expand the metabolic repertoire for the organisms involved.  She is also fascinated in how the metabolic processes of microbes … Continued

Fanny Girard is a third-year Ph.D. student in Dr. Charles Fisher’s lab at the Pennsylvania State University. As part of her thesis, she has been looking at the long-term impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deep-sea coral communities in the Gulf of Mexico using imaging methods. She is mainly focusing on understanding processes … Continued

Emily Estes is a graduate student working with Colleen Hansel at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her research explores how minerals interact with organic carbon in marine sediments and what implications those interactions have for microbial life. When not in lab or at sea, she can be found wandering Cape Cod with her dog, Moxie.

Dr. Chuck Fisher is a deep-sea biologist whose research interests include the physiology of animals harboring chemoautotrophic symbionts, and the ecology of the communities that they often dominate. He has worked extensively with submersible and robotic vehicles to study these communities in their natural habitats around hydrothermal vents and cold seeps all over the world. Dr. … Continued

Dr. Cherisse Du Preez studies the deep-sea spatial ecology of hydrothermal vents. She uses two- and three-dimensional imaging to study the very fine spatial distribution of vent animals in response to physical and chemical environmental conditions (at a centimeter scale). This research will help identify the required living conditions of these unique animal assemblages, proving … Continued

Arunima Sen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE), located more than 200 miles above the Arctic Circle. She received her BA in Biology from Earlham College and her PhD from Pennsylvania State University, where she studied community dynamics and temporal change in Western Pacific hydrothermal vents … Continued