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
Anna M Addamo is a Marine Biologist and Ecologist Ph.D. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Nord University (Norway) and project manager of the Horizon Europe MPA Europe. She is also a research member of the Climate Change Research Center (CCRC) at the University of Insubria (Italy) and of IUCN World Commission on Protected … Continued
Dylan Mankel is an NSF GRFP Fellow and Ph.D. student in Biology at Boston University under Dr. Jeffrey Marlow. His research focuses on extremophile microorganisms and their habitats, ranging from hydrothermal vents in the Caribbean Sea to hyperalkaline springs in northern California. He is interested in how microbial communities come to inhabit and derive energy … Continued
Patricia Esquete is assistant Researcher at the Biology Department and Centre of Marine and Environmental Studies of the University of Aveiro (Portugal). She has a BS in Marine Biology for the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, a Ms in Oceanography by the Universidad de Cádiz, a Ms in Anthropology for the Universidad Nacional de Educación … Continued
Adam Skarke is an Associate Professor of Geology in the Department of Geosciences at Mississippi State University. Prior to his current appointment, he was a scientist with the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration. Adam’s research is focused on understanding fundamental physical relationships between sediment transport, morphological expression, stratigraphy, and subsurface fluid flow in seafloor environments … Continued
Amber Henningsen is a Master student at the Institute for Geography, University of Bremen, in northern Germany. Complementing a team of biologists at INES (Integrated Environmental Solutions), which is based at the Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven, she currently works with benthic macrofauna and megafauna from the Clarion-Clipperton-Zone. Several cruises to the Pacific let her gain … Continued
