Ivonne obtained her bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Costa Rica. She is currently specializing in Biotechnology and Molecular Biology at the same institution. She is currently working on her undergraduate thesis, which focuses on studying the diversity and enzymatic activity of fungi found in deep-sea sediments in the Pacific region of Costa … Continued
Philip F. Yang is a PhD student at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography. Philip works with Dr. Andrew Davies in the Marine Ecology and Technology lab. He is currently a NOAA Dr. Nancy Foster Scholar studying mesophotic reef ecosystems in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Philip’s oceanographic interests span … Continued
Marguerite (Maggie) Langwig is a PhD candidate in the Freshwater and Marine Sciences program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the lab of Dr. Karthik Anantharaman. She received her B.S. in Biopsychology from Wagner College in 2016 and M.S. in Marine Science from the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute in 2019. In … Continued
Katie Klier is a second-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, in the laboratory of Dr. Karthik Anantharaman. Her research focuses on utilizing metagenomics and other computational techniques to study microbial and viral communities at hydrothermal vents to better understand their contributions to ecology and biogeochemistry. On this cruise, Katie will be … Continued
Dr. Erin Bethell is a research associate with the Metal Oceans team led by Dr. Mark Hannington at the University of Ottawa. Erin is also the coordinator of iMAGE-CREATE, a marine geodynamics and georesources training platform for early career geoscientists funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)’s Collaborative Research and … Continued
Dr. Craig J. Brown is a benthic ecologist in the Department of Oceanography at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He received his PhD in 1998 from the University of Portsmouth in the UK, and has held a variety of government research, private sector and academic positions in the UK and Canada – all with … Continued
Dr. Chong Chen is a Senior Scientist with Tenure at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the Japanese national research institute for ocean research. Dr. Chen received his degrees from University of Oxford, including BA and MA (in Natural Sciences: Biological Sciences) in 2011 and DPhil (in Zoology) in 2015. Dr. Chen … Continued
As a deep-sea explorer and marine biologist, Dr. Cherisse Du Preez studies animals living on the seafloor far below the sunlit surface. She uses underwater cameras to document previously unexplored environments and the animals that call them home (many new to science). She is particularly fond of using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) to map and … Continued
Dr. Chris Galley is a Postdoctoral Fellow for Dr. Mark Hannington’s research group at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Galley studies ancient and modern hydrothermal systems to better understand the fundamental geologic controls on the formation of seafloor massive sulfide deposits and their ancient equivalents, volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits. His work is accomplished primarily through … Continued
Caroline Gini is a PhD student in marine geology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Coming from a land-locked country, she has always been fascinated by ocean exploration and seafloor geological processes. In 2016, for her M.Sc. project, she participated on her first research cruise to study lava flow morphologies at mid-ocean ridges using high-resolution … Continued
