Jorge Cortés-Núñez (he/him) – CO-CHIEF SCIENTIST Title and Institution: Professor Emeritus of Biology, Center for Research of Marine Sciences and Limnology (CIMAR), Universidad de Costa Rica Jorge Cortés is a researcher at the Center for Research in Marine Sciences and Limnology (CIMAR) and Professor Emeritus at the School of Biology, University of Costa Rica. He … Continued
Sabrina is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program in Chemical Oceanography. Her current research focuses on studying microbial life from extreme environments, such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents, serpentinite mud volcanoes, and terrestrial soda lakes, as analogs for life possible on other celestial bodies with … Continued
Dr. Corinna Breusing is a marine research associate at the University of Rhode Island. She received her Ph.D. degree in Biological Oceanography from the University of Kiel in collaboration with the Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, in 2016. Corinna’s work primarily focuses on the evolutionary biology of marine microbial symbioses, including the role … Continued
Jaycee is a physical scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey Global Marine Mineral Resources project. She assists in the research of deep ocean minerals within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and throughout the Earth’s oceans. Jaycee helps process core and rock samples, as well as the geochemical characterization of marine mineral samples. In 2022, she joined a … Continued
Eric Ryberg is a postdoctoral researcher and environmental chemist in the Department of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Prior to joining the Woods Hole community in 2021, he was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences. He received his B.A. in Chemistry … Continued
Ann Tarrant is a Senior Scientist in the Biology Department and Associate Dean of Academic Programs at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She completed a B.S. in Marine Science and Biology at the University of Miami (1995) and M.S. (1998) and Ph.D. (2002) degrees in Biological Oceanography at the University of Hawaii. She was awarded a … Continued
Dr. Santiago Herrera is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University, USA, and serves as a Research Associate at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and a Guest Investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. Dr. Herrera specializes in … Continued
Colleen Hansel is a Senior Scientist and Biogeochemist in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prior to joining the scientific staff at WHOI in 2012, she was an Associate Professor at Harvard University, joint between the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied … Continued
Nicole Pittoors is a third year Ph.D. student in Biology at Lehigh University. Advised by Dr. Santiago Herrera, her research involves using metabarcoding to describe the biodiversity and connectivity of mesophotic coral communities and other deep-sea ecosystems. She is broadly interested in larval ecology and reproductive biology of mesophotic and deep-sea invertebrates. Before Lehigh, Nicole … Continued
Kate Lane researches marine microbes using biogeochemical, molecular, genetic, and computational tools in Dr. Colleen Hansel’s Lab. She is a 2nd year PhD student in the MIT / WHOI Joint Program and an NSF-GRFP Fellow. Kate received her M.Sc. degree in Population Biology from UC Davis in Prof. Jonathan Eisen’s Lab, worked as computational staff … Continued
