Kareati Waysang is the Education Officer for the PIPA Implementation Office, part of the Ministry of Environment Lands and Agricultural Development (MELAD) for the Government of Kiribati. Ms. Waysang has previously participated in several PIPA-related projects, including an expedition to PIPA onboard the SSV Robert C Seamans to study the biological, chemical, and physical oceanography of … Continued
Jon Kagan is a world leader in defining the molecular and cellular pathways by which the innate immune system recognizes microbes and infection. He has worked at the interface of host-microbe interactions for the last 23 years, first as a trainee at Yale, and since 2007 at Harvard, where he runs a research lab based … Continued
Dr. Brian Kennedy is a deep-sea ecologist who has spent over a decade in ocean exploration. His basic research focuses on understanding how environmental drivers influence deep sea organisms. As part of that work, he is always looking for ways to increase the pace and efficiency of ocean exploration through both the development of new … Continued
Corey Whisson is a Technical Officer at the Western Australian Museum, working exclusively with Molluscs, and has been doing so for over 20 years. He completed his BSc (Hons) degree at Curtin University in 2000 before commencing at the WA Museum. He recently (2020) completed his Masters of Philosophy degree at Murdoch University in a … Continued
Chloe Anderson is a student completing an honours degree at the University of Western Australia and WAM, investigating the taxonomy of seastar family Pterasteridae. Her Bachelor’s degree was completed at UWA, where she majored in marine science and conservation biology. She likes the beach, diving and 4WDing
Amy has recently finished her undergraduate degree at Murdoch University and is currently completing her Honours at Curtin University. Her study is on the ecophysiology of mesophotic corals in the Dampier Archipelago and hopes to one day make a significant contribution to the conservation of coral reefs. Amy’s passion for conservation and sustainability grew as … Continued
Declan is a current Honours student at the University of Western Australia, where he also completed a double major Bachelor in Genetics and Zoology. His research project involves the spatial variance of microbial assemblages associated with coral in offshore communities of Western Australia. He is especially interested in the thermal tolerance of coral and its … Continued
Roi Granot is a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Ben Gurion University, Israel. He is a geoscientist with expertise in plate tectonics, geodynamics and marine magnetics. He has a particular interest in quantifying past plate motions and worked in various oceanic basins, from the Southern Ocean and Antarctica through … Continued
Lauren Huet is in her final year of her undergraduate degree at James Cook University, undertaking a Bachelor of Science majoring in Marine Biology. Her areas of interest include marine pollution, oceanography and marine geology. Lauren is a 2021 New Colombo Plan Scholar recipient and will study marine pollution and oceanography at the Goa University … Continued
Luca Magri is a PhD student at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania. He received his BSc in Geology from University of Pavia, Italy (2015) and a MSc in Geology and Territory from University of Bologna, Italy (2019), after completing an internship, through Erasmus Programme, at University of Cadiz, Spain (2017). … Continued
