Samantha is an honours student and officer at the University of Western Australia (UWA) with extensive experience in data administration and analysis. She completed her undergraduate degree in marine biology at UWA in 2012 and recently re-joined the field, pursuing a lifelong passion for marine invertebrate ecology. As a member of the Hemmi Lab, she … Continued
Dr. Russ Hopcroft is Chair and Professor of Oceanography at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He received his MSc in 1988 and his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. His graduate research focused upon plankton ecology in the tropical waters surrounding Jamaica, West Indies. From 1997 to 1999, Dr. Hopcroft was … Continued
I hold a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences, with a doctorate in Zoology at the University of São Paulo (USP). I completed my postdoctoral studies at IB-USP, with an internship at Kitasato University School of Marine Biosciences, Japan. I’m a faculty at the Institute of Oceanography at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), working … Continued
Neera Raychaudhuri is a second year PhD student at Harvard University studying Engineering Sciences, with a concentration in Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, she works in the Microrobotics Laboratory under Prof. Robert Wood on research topics in bioinspired and biodegradable robotics, hoping to design sustainable robots for field applications. … Continued
Master’s degree in Oceanography with an emphasis on Biological Oceanography from the University of São Paulo (2024). Bachelor and Licentiate degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Brasília (2021). Member of the Education Program Tutorial PETBio-UnB (program under the auspices of the Ministry of Education of Brazil). Currently I work with deep sea fish, … Continued
My name is Marcelo Melo and I am a Brazilian biologist and professor at the Oceanographic Institite of Univesity of São Paulo, specializing in the taxonomy and evolution of deep-sea fishes. My interests in this field encompass a range of topics, including morphology and genetics, describing new species, phylogeny, and understanding the evolution of bioluminescence … Continued
Manu Prakash is Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Biology (courtesy), and Oceans (courtesy) at Stanford University and co-founder of Foldscope Instruments, Planktoscope, and Cephla. Manu graduated with an undergraduate degree in theoretical computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he completed a PhD in … Continued
I am a theoretical physicist, turned neuroscientist. I study animal movement using tools from dynamical systems theory. My work integrates animal behavioural experiments with non-linear time series analysis techniques to extract novel insights from real biological data. I am particularly interested in understanding how the need to move in different environments has shaped the evolution … Continued
I currently work as a Genomic Technician in International Marine Sciences at Tohoku University, where I oversee DNA extraction and sequencing workflows for marine biological samples.
Katie Burrows received her BS in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State, an MS in Electrical Engineering from SJSU, and is working towards her PhD in Ocean Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. Her research focuses on distributed sensing and ocean robotics. Along with her love of learning, she enjoys sailing, surfing, and running.
