Nicole Pittoors is a third year Ph.D. student in Biology at Lehigh University. Advised by Dr. Santiago Herrera, her research involves using metabarcoding to describe the biodiversity and connectivity of mesophotic coral communities and other deep-sea ecosystems. She is broadly interested in larval ecology and reproductive biology of mesophotic and deep-sea invertebrates. Before Lehigh, Nicole … Continued
Kate Lane researches marine microbes using biogeochemical, molecular, genetic, and computational tools in Dr. Colleen Hansel’s Lab. She is a 2nd year PhD student in the MIT / WHOI Joint Program and an NSF-GRFP Fellow. Kate received her M.Sc. degree in Population Biology from UC Davis in Prof. Jonathan Eisen’s Lab, worked as computational staff … Continued
Dr Joan Alfaro-Lucas is a marine biologist interested in the patterns of biodiversity and their drivers, and how human activities may change them, in the deep sea. This includes not only the species but also the functional diversity and their change along space and time. Joan is particularly interested in understanding the role of energy, … Continued
Syrmalenia Kotronaki is in her second year of graduate school at Lehigh University at Dr. Santiago Herrera’s lab. She is interested in population genomics and phylogenomics of deep-sea fauna. She earned her B.Sc. in Biology at the University of Crete in 2015, and went on to achieve a M.Sc. in Biological Oceanography at Christian-Albrecht University … Continued
Andrea is a Research Zoologist and Curator of Corals at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. Andrea investigates the factors that generate biodiversity in the marine environment, particularly in the deep sea. She has been studying deep-sea coral communities, including those off the southeastern U.S and in the Caribbean, for two decades and … Continued
Don Martocello is a 5th year PhD student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Chemical Oceanography. He is directly advised by Scott Wankel and is a proud member of the Wankel/Hansel lab groups at WHOI. Prior to grad school, Don was a geosciences major at Princeton University working with the Morel Lab studying trace metal … Continued
Lina Taenzer is a 4th year Ph.D. student studying chemical oceanography. She lives on Cape Cod and works at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where she is jointly advised by Colleen Hansel and Scott Wankel. Since starting her Ph.D. Lina has been researching the production and fates of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in marine systems. … Continued
Jennifer Necker is a first year Ph.D. student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program studying chemical oceanography. She earned her B.S. in Marine Science at Eckerd College where she also worked on the microplastics quantification team. Her past research has focused on trace metal cycling in multiple marine systems. Advised by Dr. Colleen Hansel, Jennifer is … Continued
Erica is a 3rd year PhD candidate and NSF-GRFP fellow in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. Before coming to WHOI, she received her BS in Animal Science from New Mexico State University and studied both Chemistry and Mathematics at the University of Texas at El Paso. Advised by Colleen Hansel, her research interests are centered around … Continued
William Pardis is an electrical engineer in the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department at Woods Hole Oceanographic institution. Growing up and studying electrical engineering in Montana a boat was mostly just a concept to him. Through an interest in environmental sensing, he found himself commercializing an oceanographic pH instrument with a oceanographic company in … Continued
