Caroline Gini is a PhD student in marine geology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Coming from a land-locked country, she has always been fascinated by ocean exploration and seafloor geological processes. In 2016, for her M.Sc. project, she participated on her first research cruise to study lava flow morphologies at mid-ocean ridges using high-resolution … Continued
Mark Hannington is Professor of Economic Geology at the University of Ottawa and former Head of Marine Mineral Resources at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto (1989) and spent 15 years as a research scientist in the Mineral Deposits Division of the … Continued
Moronke Harris is an Oceanography PhD Student in the Juniper Lab at the University of Victoria (BC, Canada) who has returned to academia after working in industry on climate engineering and intergovernmental (Canada, USA, Russia, Japan, and the Republic of Korea), multi-vessel research expedition planning. Her research focuses on the most unexplored areas of the ocean, … Continued
Hope Ianiri is a marine biogeochemist and Mendenhall postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center. Broadly, her research interests include the marine organic carbon and nitrogen cycles and long-term carbon storage in marine environments. Her work at USGS aims to quantify and characterize organic carbon stored in marine … Continued
John Jamieson is the Canada Research Chair in Marine Geology at Memorial University in Newfoundland. He graduated from the University of Alberta (B.Sc.) in 2002 and the University of Maryland (MSc) in 2005 and completed his PhD at the University of Ottawa in 2013. He spent 3 years at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean … Continued
Charles Lapointe is a graduate student and member of the Jamieson Marine Geology Laboratory at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Canada. His M.Sc. project focuses on the geology of seafloor hydrothermal systems and the mapping of associated deposits. To this end, he applies a variety of mineralogical, geochemical, and geochronological tools to rock … Continued
Sarah Moriarty is a PhD candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Sarah utilizes stable isotopes as a tool to constrain sub-seafloor fluid/rock interactions affecting hydrothermal fluid cycling and associated seafloor massive sulfide deposit formation at submarine hydrothermal vent sites from various geological settings. Previously she received her M.Sc. in Earth Sciences from Memorial, as well … Continued
Dr. Sheryl Murdock is a postdoctoral researcher at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences where she currently studies the role of microbes in nitrous oxide cycling in marine oxygen minimum zones. She is a microbial ecologist who dabbles in geochemistry and studies various aspects of microbial involvement in ecosystems, ranging from nutrient and elemental cycling … Continued
Brendan Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Oceanography at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, supervised by Dr. David Barclay. His research is focused on the use of passive acoustics to detect and monitor hydrothermal vents. Given the efficient propagation of sound underwater, passive acoustics can potentially be used to detect new vent … Continued
Jake Tidwell is a master’s student in the Earth and Planetary Sciences program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, while simultaneously conducting research at the U.S. Geological Survey. He graduated from William & Mary in 2020 with a bachelor of science, where he double-majored in geology and government. His research focuses on the geochemistry … Continued
