Dexter Davis is a 2nd year Master’s Student at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) under Dr. Andrew Thurber studying the role of invertebrate infauna in chemosynthesis at a young methane seep in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Using isotopes, Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME), and gut content analyses, Dexter aims to decipher the role these macroinvertebrates … Continued
Eugenio Veloso is currently the Chief of the Marine Geology and Geophysics Program at the Chilean Geological Survey (SERNAGEOMIN in Spanish), and president of the Marine Geology Group within the National Oceanographic Commission (CONA). His early research focused on the emplacement dynamics of ophiolitic bodies into continental crust, to better constrain and understand the mechanism … Continued
Eulogio Soto Oyarzún is a Full Professor at Marine Science and Natural Resources Faculty, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile, and Director of Marine Observation Center for Observation and Analysis of the Coastal Ocean (COSTAR). He also participates in Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI) for Minerals and BBNJ Working Groups; Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative (GOBI), Ocean Census, … Continued
Fernanda Sofía Orrego Acuña has been a marine biologist from the University of Valparaíso, Chile since 2022. She currently works in the ichthyology and biophysical interactions laboratory, where she works with geometric morphometry, mainly with oceanic fish larvae, with the intention of knowing their morphology and their interaction with oceanographic conditions. In addition, she works … Continued
Fritz Schiller is finishing his master thesis at the University Oldenburg and the DZMB. His research field are the meiofauna communities, in shelf seas so as in the deep sea, using morphological and genetic analyses. Fritz received his B.Sc. in biology from Oldenburg University and is now at the end of his M. Sc at … Continued
Gracie Babineaux is a Ph.D. candidate in Earth and Energy Sciences at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, specializing in benthic foraminifera in methane seep environments. Her research focuses on understanding the stable isotopic response of benthic foraminifera to methane and their biodiversity and ecological roles. With the help of funding from the National Science … Continued
Jeffrey Marlow is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Boston University, where his lab studies the functional links between microbes and their environment at deep-sea methane seeps and hydrothermal vents, salt marsh sediments, and volcanoes. This work combines metabolic activity measurements and microscopic imaging to see individual microbes and their mineralogical surroundings “as they really … Continued
Lucía Villar-Muñoz is a Postdoc researcher in the Department of Geophysics at the Universidad de Chile, where her focus is to search the energy and mineral resources of the Chilean continental shelf. She has been studying gas hydrates in the margin of Chile for more than 10 years and mapping the areas where to find … Continued
Marcela Cornejo was born in Santiago, Chile. She is Oceanographer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso with a Doctorate in Oceanography from the University of Concepción, Chile. Marcela is a full professor at the Escuela de Ciencias del Mar, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, and director of the Laboratory of Marine Biogeochemistry of … Continued
