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Schmidt Ocean Institute operates the 110m globally operating research vessel Falkor (too). The Institute is a U.S. non-profit private operating foundation established in 2009 to advance oceanographic research. The Institute brings together advanced science and state-of-the-art technology to achieve lasting results in ocean research, to catalyze open sharing of the information, and to communicate the … Continued
The subtropical ocean gyres are thousands of kilometers in diameter, with an average depth exceeding 4,000 meters, making them one of Earth’s largest continuous biomes. Gyres are large, permanent circular current systems primarily driven by Earth’s global wind patterns and its rotation, and are found in each major ocean basin. While often deprived of nutrients, it is estimated that 20% of the ocean’s primary productivity occurs in the subtropical gyres, and these ecosystems may account for up to half of the global ocean carbon export to the deep sea. Understanding their biogeochemistry is required to develop a more accurate understanding of how climate change is impacting the global Ocean.
Esther Mak is a postdoctoral researcher at the Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana. She earned her Ph.D. in Ocean Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she focused on the microbial ecology of nitrogen-fixing microorganisms. At SUBSEA, she applies molecular biology tools to investigate how nitrogen fixers and other microbial groups … Continued
Tully is a environmental science graduate of Colby College in Maine. His background as a seagoing oceanographic technician spans nearly 800 days at sea over eight years of mooring and instrument operations at Oregon State University and another seven at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as a member of Angel White’s lab and the Hawaiʻi … Continued
Susan Garcia is originally from San Diego, California, and completed her undergraduate degree in Biology and Chemistry at Brandeis University. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington, where she works in the Ingalls Lab studying marine microbial metabolomics.Susan’s research focuses on how phytoplankton like Thalassiosira spp. … Continued
Robert Hall is Distinguished Professor of Limnology at Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana, where he has worked since 2017. Prior to that he was on the faculty at University of Wyoming where he started in 1998. Since graduate school at University of Georgia he has been interested in aquatic carbon and nitrogen cycling. … Continued
Richelle Ellis is an expeditionary artist and analog astronaut exploring life across interconnected systems – from organisms and social structures to ecosystems and planetary networks – revealing the complexity and interdependence that bind them. She creates artworks designed for extreme and off-world environments, including works placed in international orbit, etched onto satellites, suspended by stratospheric … Continued
Ricardo M Letelier is a Professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. His research explores the response of marine pelagic microorganisms, populations, and communities to environmental perturbations and how this response affects marine biogeochemical cycles. His main areas of expertise are phytoplankton ecology and bio-optics. Letelier received his … Continued
I am a South African marine scientist whose work focuses on understanding how ocean systems function, particularly the processes that regulate nutrients, phytoplankton productivity, and the marine nitrogen cycle. I completed my PhD in Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Cape Town in 2023, during which I developed a particular interest in trying … Continued
