Diva Amon (she/her) Title and Institution: Director, SpeSeas, Trinidad & Tobago, and Scientific Advisor, Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Bio: Diva Amon is a Caribbean marine biologist focused on the little-known habitats and animals of the deep ocean and how our actions are impacting them. She works at the nexus … Continued
Beth Orcutt (she/her) – CO-CHIEF SCIENTIST Title and Institution: Senior Research Scientist, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Maine, USA Beth Orcutt is a Senior Research Scientist and interim Vice President for Research at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in the USA. She directs the Deep Biosphere Laboratory which specializes in the study of the life … Continued
Jorge Cortés-Núñez (he/him) – CO-CHIEF SCIENTIST Title and Institution: Professor Emeritus of Biology, Center for Research of Marine Sciences and Limnology (CIMAR), Universidad de Costa Rica Jorge Cortés is a researcher at the Center for Research in Marine Sciences and Limnology (CIMAR) and Professor Emeritus at the School of Biology, University of Costa Rica. He … Continued
Sabrina is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program in Chemical Oceanography. Her current research focuses on studying microbial life from extreme environments, such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents, serpentinite mud volcanoes, and terrestrial soda lakes, as analogs for life possible on other celestial bodies with … Continued
Dr. Corinna Breusing is a marine research associate at the University of Rhode Island. She received her Ph.D. degree in Biological Oceanography from the University of Kiel in collaboration with the Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, in 2016. Corinna’s work primarily focuses on the evolutionary biology of marine microbial symbioses, including the role … Continued
Jaycee is a physical scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey Global Marine Mineral Resources project. She assists in the research of deep ocean minerals within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and throughout the Earth’s oceans. Jaycee helps process core and rock samples, as well as the geochemical characterization of marine mineral samples. In 2022, she joined a … Continued
Eric Ryberg is a postdoctoral researcher and environmental chemist in the Department of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Prior to joining the Woods Hole community in 2021, he was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences. He received his B.A. in Chemistry … Continued
Ann Tarrant is a Senior Scientist in the Biology Department and Associate Dean of Academic Programs at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She completed a B.S. in Marine Science and Biology at the University of Miami (1995) and M.S. (1998) and Ph.D. (2002) degrees in Biological Oceanography at the University of Hawaii. She was awarded a … Continued
Dr. Santiago Herrera is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University, USA, and serves as a Research Associate at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and a Guest Investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. Dr. Herrera specializes in … Continued
Colleen Hansel is a Senior Scientist and Biogeochemist in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prior to joining the scientific staff at WHOI in 2012, she was an Associate Professor at Harvard University, joint between the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied … Continued
