Dave Casagrande is a Marine Development Engineer at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, and is on R/V Falkor supporting the RAD2 Sampler. He is also responsible for a number of other URI vehicles, including the Wire Flyer towed profiler, a Lagrangian float and camera platform, an 11 km autonomous profiler (lander), … Continued
Paul Roberts is a Research Engineer working for Kakani Katija in the Bioinspiration Lab. He comes to MBARI after working at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for 18 years designing and building underwater imaging instruments to study marine animals. He specializes in underwater microscopy, computer vision, machine learning, and underwater instrument design. Paul is dedicated … Continued
John Burns is a systems biologist who considers biological problems across scales from the molecular to the cellular through global scales. He works in a variety of biological systems on linking genomic information to the functions, forms, and behaviors of cells and whole organisms (www.protistsystems.org). His research provided the first predictive model of the complex … Continued
Devin is a second-year M.S. student studying Biological Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is currently working with Dr. Lisa Levin and her amazing team of deep-sea scientists. His research is focused on the megafauna communities in the Southern California Borderland (SCB) and their affinity for phosphorite and ferromanganese crusts. Devin has previously … Continued
John Fulmer is one of Falkor’s Marine Technicians. John grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he received a bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience from Dalhousie University. After graduating, he spent four years as a first mate aboard sailing yachts in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, fulfilling his passion for the ocean. Seeking a more meaningful career … Continued
Jovelle Tamayo is a Filipina American photographer, filmmaker, and journalist based in Seattle, Washington. Their bylines appear in various news outlets, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Washington Post, and TIME. In addition to her work as a visual storyteller, Jovelle is a media educator for youth and college students, a … Continued
TANYA YOUNG is an artist working in Del Mar, California. She started painting at a very young age, beginning with children’s classes at the Art Institute of Chicago while in primary school. She graduated with a B.F.A. in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received her M.F.A. in Painting at … Continued
Anameere Tennaba is a current undergraduate student at the Brigham Young University-Hawaii. I am from the beautiful island of Kiribati. She is majoring in Marine Biology, and minoring in Business Management tourism, and Pacific island Studies. Ms. Tennaba chose to major in Marine Biology to pursue my dream to become a Marine Biologist in the … Continued
Alexis Weinnig is a contracted Research Scientist with the US Geological Survey at the Eastern Ecological Science Center in West Virginia and a Guest Investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She is broadly interested in the ecology, population structure, and human influence on cold-water coral and other deep-sea ecosystems. Alexis has participated in research … Continued
Jason Garwood is one of Falkor’s Captains and is from Weston Super-Mare, UK.
