Jose Martinez earned a BS in Oceanography from Texas A&M University and is currently a master’s graduate student at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez majoring in chemical oceanography. He is a researcher of the Biogeochemistry Ecology Research Group in the Department of Marine Sciences at UPRM specifically looking at oxygen variability in southwest Puerto … Continued
My name is Yanelle Silva Luna, I am a marine scientist from the University of Puerto Rico. I am currently doing my Master’s in Biological Oceanography in the Ecology and Biology of Coral Reefs Laboratory at Isla Magueyes Research Station. My research interests are focused on benthic ecology and coral diseases. I’ve been involved in … Continued
My name is Leira J. Centeno Mejías, and I am a graduate student. I’m an independent contractor currently monitoring seawater outflows of a power plant in Bahía de Guayanilla, PR, for regulatory compliance as part of a project-based MS through coordinating field efforts, organizing data, and assisting with reports with DNA Environment.
Catherine Hernandez Rodriguez is a marine science graduate student at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. She is quantifying seagrass metabolism to better understand “blue carbon” uptake and seagrass bed biogeochemistry through a multidisciplinary approach to better understand the role of seagrasses in carbon sequestration and seawater buffering under ocean acidification. She received her bachelor’s degree … Continued
Teresa Winter is a PhD candidate in the department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Vienna. Her research interests focus on thiotrophic mutualistic relationships prevalent in many marine habitats. She is currently studying shallow water wood falls in the Mediterranean Sea, tracking when and under what conditions ciliates harboring thiotrophic ectosymbionts colonize … Continued
Tinkara Tinta is a scientific associate at the Marine Biology Station Piran, National Institute of Biology, Slovenia. Tinkara has interdisciplinary background with BSc in biochemistry (Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) and PhD in environmental sciences (University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia). She is a marine microbial ecologist exploring how different perturbations … Continued
Jan Steger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Palaeontology at the University of Vienna, Austria. He obtained his MSc in marine biology from the University of Bremen, Germany, and a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Vienna. His main interests are the biodiversity, distributional patterns, and functional ecology of marine benthic … Continued
Stefan Sievert is an Associate Scientist in the Biology Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). He is a microbial oceanographer who studies the composition, diversity, and function of microbial communities, with the objective of understanding the relationship between microorganisms and their role in the ocean’s biogeochemical cycles. Dr. Sievert is particularly interested in … Continued
Philipp Pröts is an evolutionary morphologist and biologist. He received his BSc. and MSc. from University of Vienna. During his Master’s study he worked with marine bryozoans and after graduating he started his PhD by joining the “shallow waters symbiosis” lab of Jörg Ott at the University of Vienna. Philipp currently works on the morphology … Continued
Alessandro Messora is a Marine Biology MSc student at the University of Groningen, with a BS in Biological Sciences from the University of Milan Bicocca. Despite growing up in a landlocked region of Italy at the feet of the Alps, his passion for the marine environment led him to work in different research centers throughout … Continued
