Log Post: Unicorn Party

It was a magical feeling when the image appeared on the screens. The researchers in the Science Control Room were beyond excited: “This is just like finding a unicorn. You hear about them, some people even believe they exist, but you never expect to come across one,” said Dr. Mak Saito, chief scientist. This particular … Continued

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Log Post: Artist-at-sea Update: Designs & Patterns from Nature & Data

Aloha! My name is Michelle Schwengel-Regala, and I am the current Artist-at-Sea in a new program with the Schmidt Ocean Institute. This program selects an artist to join a science crew during a research voyage aboard R/V Falkor. This ship is outfitted to not only map the bottom of the ocean but also to support … Continued

Person: Caleb Hsu

Caleb Hsu is a first year undergraduate student at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa. He graduated from Kaiser High School in 2015 and has resided in Honolulu, Hawai`i for ten years. As a major in Global Environmental Science, Caleb is involved in research with Dr. Brian Glazer, working on near-real-time sensor data streaming from … Continued

Person: Michelle Schwengel-Regala

Michelle Schwengel-Regala is a scientific illustrator and fiber artist, currently working as an Artist in Residence at the University of Hawai’i-Mānoa Art & Art History Department.  She studied Entomology & Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and with a graduate certificate in Science Illustration from the University of California at Santa Cruz has collaborated … Continued

Person: Eric Webb

Eric Webb is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.  He is an environmental microbiologist who applies molecular techniques to elucidate the underlying genetic systems involved environmental processes.  The major scientific focus of his lab is on the physiology and ecology of marine and freshwater cyanobacteria. Underneath this large research … Continued

Person: Dawn Moran

Dawn Moran is a research associate at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She works with Mak Saito focusing on ocean trace metal chemistry and microbial proteomics. Currently she is developing new methods for protein sample analysis. Dawn processes protein samples from microbial physiological experiments and ocean research cruises. These proteomic profiles have shown to be closely … Continued

Person: Sarah Laperriere

Sarah Laperriere is a Ph.D. student in Oceanography as part of the Marine, Estuarine, and Environmental Science program at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory. Her research focuses on nitrous oxide (N2O) dynamics in Chesapeake Bay and off the coast of Southern California at the San Pedro Ocean Time-series station. … Continued

Person: Tristan Horner

Dr. Tristan J. Horner is an Agouron Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He started at Woods Hole as a Postdoctoral Scholar in 2012 and will join the Scientific Staff in 2016. His research aims to understand the form, function, and history of the oceans biological carbon cycle and … Continued

Person: Alyson Santoro

Dr. Alyson Santoro is a microbial oceanographer that specializes in the ecology of nitrogen cycling microbes. Most of her research focuses on the eastern Pacific Ocean, including expeditions to the California Current, Equatorial Pacific, and the Eastern Tropical South Pacific off Peru. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Horn Point Laboratory, part of the … Continued

Person: Erin McParland

Erin McParland is a PhD student in the Marine Biology Department at the University of Southern California in Dr. Naomi Levine’s laboratory. She received her B.S. in marine science from the University of South Carolina. Her thesis is focused on the cycling of dimethylsulfide (DMS), a smelly sulfur gas found in the surface ocean. DMS … Continued