Gina Dambrowski did her bachelor’s degree in “Biology” at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Northern Germany and is now completing her master’s degree, focusing on benthic Copepoda communities from the North Sea. Her research combines morphological species identification and genetical methods to understand species diversity and ecosystem dynamics. During her work with INES (Integrated … Continued
Cristian Aldea Venegas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Sciences and Resources and the GAIA Antarctica Studies Center at the University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile. He holds a degree in Marine Biology (1997–2002) and a Diploma in Environmental Analysis and Management, specializing in Environmental Impact Assessment (2002), both from the University … Continued
Jessica Ferreira is a research fellow for the COAST project – Conservation of marine ecosystems around Santo Antão, Cabo Verde: implications for policy and society – at the Centre of Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) and Biology Department of University of Aveiro, Portugal. She is currently focused on fish diversity assessment and is interested in … Continued
Meredith Meyer is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of East Anglia (UK) in the Ocean Glider Group in the School of Environmental Sciences. She is an ocean biogeochemist whose work focuses mainly on evaluating primary production and carbon cycle processes. Much of Meredith’s research focuses on polar regions, but this will be her first … Continued
Prof. Dr. Pedro Martinez Arbizu is the director of the Institute Senckenberg am Meer in Wilhelmshaven and Professor for Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg in Germany since 2001. Previously he had been Professor of Zoology at the University of Paraná in Curitiba Brazil. Prof. Martinez Arbizu is an expert in ecology, taxonomy and … Continued
Dr Teresa Amaro is a researcher in the Department of Biology and the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She is a deep-sea ecologist with a broad interest in understanding trophic ecology across various deep-sea ecosystems, including submarine canyons, abyssal plains, and seamounts in contrasting ocean basins such … Continued
Sasha is a Lecturer in Environmental Change at the University College London. His research combines marine geophysical data with sediment cores and numerical modeling to reconstruct past interactions between ice sheets, oceans, and the solid earth. Sasha completed his PhD at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, following earlier study in … Continued
Américo Montiel San Martín is a biologist from the Universidad de Magallanes, with 28 years of professional experience researching marine ecology in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic areas, with special emphasis on biodiversity and taxonomy of polychaetes. In 2005, Dr. Montiel obtained his PhD at the University of Bremen (Germany) with a scholarship from the German Academic … Continued
Peter Schroedl is a PhD candidate in the Marlow Lab at Boston University. He has conducted experiments to investigate microbes from the benthic ocean up to the stratosphere. The three chapters of his thesis study microbe-mineral interactions at terrestrial volcanoes, seafloor methane seeps along continental margins, and deep-sea polymetallic nodule fields. Before joining the Marlow … Continued
Erin Frates is a PhD candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Boston University. Her research strives to link microbial diversity, cellular activity, and geochemistry along the seafloor, with a profound interest in chemosynthetic environments. During the expedition, Frates will characterize the microbial ecology at cold seeps and hydrothermal vents. Ultimately, she aims to clarify … Continued
