Jessica Rodgers is an incoming first-year Ph.D. student at Lehigh University under the advisement of Dr. Jill McDermott. She is particularly interested in the biogeochemistry of hydrothermal systems and how they work to support an abundance of life in the deep sea. She hopes that her work will have important implications for marine policy. Jessica … Continued
Jada Siverand is a third-year Ph.D. Candidate at Lehigh University in Dr. Jill McDermott’s Lab. Her doctoral research uses geochemistry to investigate subseafloor fluid movement and fluid-rock reactions occurring at the high-temperature hydrothermal vents in the eastern tropical Pacific. On this cruise, she will be collecting fluid samples to analyze the aqueous and gaseous chemical … Continued
Andrea Unzueta Martínez is a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Peter Girgui’s lab at Harvard University. She received her B.Sc. in Marine Biology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2016 and her Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology from Northeastern University in 2021. Andrea’s research uses molecular biology (e.g. metagenomics, transcriptomics) as well … Continued
Jacob Winnikoff is a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Girguis Lab at Harvard University. He received a B.S. in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Stanford University in 2016 and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from UC Santa Cruz in 2022. Jacob’s graduate research focused on biochemical adaptation to pressure in deep-sea comb jellies and … Continued
Jes Vollertsen is Professor of Environmental Engineering at Aalborg University, Denmark. His background is biological and chemical processes and pollutants in urban technical waters. He and his microplastic research group focus on analytical methods for quantification with the goal to contribute to trustworthy, fast, and affordable methods to quantify microplastics in the environment. The work … Continued
Asbjørn Haaning Nielsen is an associate professor of environmental engineering within the Urban Water research group at the Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University, Denmark. His primary research focus is on environmental process engineering of the urban wastewater collection and treatment and pollution related to urban and highway stormwater runoff. Emphasis is on obtaining … Continued
Jeanette Lykkemark is a PhD candidate in the field of environmental science and a chemical engineer, specializing in quantification using pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Her research is conducted at the Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University in Denmark. Her primary focus is developing novel methods for quantifying environmental pollutants, particularly in complex matrices, … Continued
Alvise Vianello is an associate professor at the Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University, Denmark. His background is in analytical chemistry, and he works to develop and improve reliable and trustworthy analytical methods for quantifying microplastics in the environment. His research focuses on different matrices, such as wastewater, stormwater ponds, soils, sediments, freshwaters, marine … Continued
Laura is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of the Built Environment at Aalborg University (BUILD-AAU), Denmark. During her PhD at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) in Barcelona, she investigated the occurrence, methods, and fate of microplastics in transitional systems of the Mediterranean Sea. These areas between land and marine environments play … Continued
Fanny Sieler is currently finishing her Master’s programme in Biology at the University of Hamburg. Previously, she analysed deep-sea meiofaunal communities from a long-term-observatory at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI) Bremerhaven and further broadened these skills at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). Recently, Fanny has been researching Aegisthid Copepods from samples taken during the … Continued
