Person: Michael J. Buckingham

Michael J. Buckingham is a Distinguished Professor, specializing in ocean acoustics, at the Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. Prior to joining Scripps, he was an Individual Merit Senior Principal Scientific Officer at the Royal Aerospace Establishment, U.K, during which time he served as the U.K. National Representative on … Continued

Person: Cynthia Matzke

Cynthia Matzke holds a Master of Advanced Studies from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. She possesses a decade-long cohesive background in journalism, producing packages and assets for NBC Universal, Akaku television, and on independent documentaries. Her goal is to foster conservation efforts by pairing ocean science research with stunning imagery … Continued

Person: David Barclay

Dr. David Barclay is a new faculty member in Dalhousie University’s Department of Oceanography after recently completing a post-doctoral scholar fellowship at the Deep Ocean Exploration Institute at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.  Dr. Barclay has a B.Sc. in physics from McGill University and received a Ph.D. in 2011 from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the … Continued

Person: Douglas Bartlett

Professor Douglas H. Bartlett received his Ph.D. in microbial molecular biology at the University of Illinois in 1985.  After several years as a postdoctoral scholar and Research Scientist at the Agouron Institute in La Jolla he assumed a faculty position at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, in 1989, where he now … Continued

Cruise: Exploring the Mariana Trench

The very deepest reaches of the sea are one of the planet’s last true frontiers. In November, RV Falkor sailed to the Mariana Trench with a group of biologists and geologists to conduct a new study of one of the deepest places in the world.

Person: Billie Lee

Billie Lee is an interdisciplinary artist currently in her second year of the American Studies Ph.D. program at the University of Hawai‛i at Mānoa. She recently directed and produced the documentary film Moving Home, which premiered at the Hawai‛i International Film Festival in 2012. She is happy to be helping with video documentation and editing … Continued

Person: Adam Smith

Born and raised in South Dakota, Adam received his B.S. in Biology from the University of Minnesota in 2009. He spent the next two years in Omaha, Nebraska studying the acoustic communication of tigers in a collaboration between the Omaha Zoo and Boys Town National Research Hospital. Currently, he is in his third year of … Continued

Person: Clare Webster

Clare Webster is a postgraduate researcher in the Pelagic Ecology Research Group at the University of St. Andrews in the UK. Her research is centered on the distribution of zooplankton in ice-impacted coastal environments.  In these critically changing environments, pelagic processes such as the daily vertical migrations of zooplankton are crucial to our understanding of … Continued

Person: Mark Royer

Mark Royer is a graduate student in the Shark Lab at the Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology under Dr. Kim Holland and Dr. Carl Meyer. The lab studies the movement, behavior, ecology, and physiology of marine predators using novel tagging technology. Using various telemetry techniques, they hope to provide useful data for marine resource management … Continued

Person: Katie Lubarsky

Katie is a first-year Masters student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.  She studies at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, and is co-advised by Drs. Megan Donahue and Erik Franklin. Before moving to Hawaii, she earned her B.S. in marine biology at UCLA, where she studied phase shifts on coral reefs and algal … Continued