Alisa Wüst is a PhD student in the Marine Science Department at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, supervised by Dr. Laura Bristow. Her research focuses on investigating the dynamics of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide in the marine environment. She will utilize 15N-tracer experiments to measure consumption and production rates of nitrous oxide … Continued
Beate Kraft is an environmental microbiologist and Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. She conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and the University of Southern Denmark and completed her Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany. Beate’s research focuses … Continued
Bror Jonsson is a research assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire, where he works on how physical and biological processes interact in the ocean. One particular focus is to develop new methods to combine ocean models, satellite products, and field observations. His main tools are Lagrangian particle tracking, remote sensing, and frameworks to … Continued
Chris Basque is a Senior Engineering Assistant I within the Mooring Operations and Engineering group at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. His focus within the group leading back deck operations, ROV work, and engineering equipment, frames, clamps, etc. for science applications to create the best platform for collecting data. The science projects … Continued
Elisa Angulo-Cánovas is a PhD student studying the marine cyanobacteria Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus. Her research focuses on marine cyanobacterial interactions via membrane vesicles and nanotubes. She studies how different stress conditions could affect membrane vesicles production in these relevant organisms, as well as the possible implications that direct interaction via nanotubes could have. Her supervisors … Continued
Emilio Garcia-Robledo is a biological oceanographer at the Department of Biology of the University of Cadiz, Spain. His research focuses on the interrelationship between microbial processes and the distribution of key compounds in aquatic environments. Currently, his research focuses on the control of oxygen on the distribution and activity of microorganisms at the interfaces of … Continued
Dr. Julia Brown is a Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, USA. Her research focuses on disentangling interactions between viruses and microbes using integrative techniques that merge information gained from single cell genomes with diverse data types. Julia was previously a Bioinformatics Scientist for the Single Cell Genomics Center … Continued
Sibille is technical staff at the Millennium Institute of Oceanography (IMO) in Phytoplancton Diversity Ecology and Life Cycle Adaptations (PhytoDELICA), the laboratory of Professor Peter von Dassow. She is in charge of all the logistics associated with the field. Her interest is related to understan ding the distribution of phytoplankton in oxygen minimum zones. She … Continued
Elisa Hernández-Magaña is a postdoctoral researcher in the Nordcee group at the University of Southern Denmark, where she also earned her PhD. Specializing in microbial ecology, her work focuses on the physiology of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) under oxygen depletion, aiming to better understand the novel oxygen production pathway via NO-dismutation in this fascinating group of … Continued
Emilio Espinoza is an undergrad biochemistry student from the The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile affiliated with the Phytodelica Lab (Phytoplankton Diversity Ecology and Life Cycle Adaptations Laboratory). He did a research on virus-coccolithophorid interaction in Emiliania Huxleyi, comparing the degree of susceptibility to infection of different strains and analyzing whether the coccolith could explain … Continued
