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If you have ever flown over a coastal area and observed a river meeting the ocean, chances are you have had the opportunity to see a river plume. The patch of distinctly colored water demonstrates the clear continuity of the river flow as it enters the ocean.
In the deep sea, hydrothermal vents are biologically important, harboring massive animal communities at densities that make them one of the most productive ecosystems on Earth.
Rising temperatures, ocean acidification, and overfishing have now gained widespread notoriety as human-caused phenomena that are changing our seas.
Rachel Boschen is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Rachel’s current project is investigating the functional ecology of hydrothermal vent communities. What an organism does in an environment, its ‘function’, is increasingly important in understanding how communities work and how sensitive they are to disturbance. Hydrothermal vents experience natural disturbance … Continued
Kevin Köser is a senior researcher at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany. His main research interest lies in novel, automated, camera-based measurement techniques and methodologies for investigating (deep) sea environments and processes. These help to explore, map and monitor (deep) sea habitats, to study phenomena or resources, or to assess … Continued
Cardinia Funganitao is a native Tongan. She attended the University of the South Pacific (Fiji & Vanuatu Campus) for undergraduate education She graduated with a Bachelor of Art majoring in Law and Geography. Part of her research experience, she undertook research on Kava Production (Livelihood of the people of Eua island) and research on the … Continued
Alexander Duda received his diploma in Mechanical Engineering (mechatronics) from the University of Darmstadt, Germany in 2009. He is currently employed at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Bremen finishing his doctoral degree with the focus on underwater multimodal 3D reconstruction using opti-acoustic sensors. Alexander has over 7 years of experience in the … Continued
Having a passionate interest in filmproduction since his teenage years, Björn Kurtenbach started his career in 2004 by absolving a 3-year education at the national Broadcast Company NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) in Hamburg, northern Germany. He finished his education summa cum laude as best in his class in northern Germany, as distinguished by the german Handelskammer. … Continued
Dr. Kwasnitschka received his PhD in Geology from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany, and has been a researcher at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel since 2007. His research focuses on robotic exploration of deep ocean environments, particularly in the field of physical volcanology of seamounts, very deep explosive volcanism, and the temporal … Continued
Mark Hannington is the Goldcorp Chair in Economic Geology at the University of Ottawa and Helmholtz Professor at GEOMAR – Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa in 2005 and GEOMAR in 2014, he was a senior research scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada for 15 years. His … Continued
