Paolo Montagna

Paolo Montagna is a senior researcher at the Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP-CNR) in Bologna with interests in the geochemistry of biogenic carbonates for palaeoclimate reconstructions and biomineralization studies. He obtained his PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Padova (Italy) in collaboration with the Australian National University. He was awarded a three year … Continued

Malcolm McCulloch

Malcolm McCulloch is an expert in coral reef geochemistry at The University of Western Australia’s Ocean Graduate School, and a Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. He obtained his PhD from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and has been a leader in the fields of … Continued

Adam Newell

Adam Newell is an Electrical Engineer at L3Harris and has been with the company for 6 and a half years, working on electrical and computer engineering projects with the HQ platform including NOAA shipboard flight testing, ways to transport possible Ebola infected blood in remote area, and imagery mapping of mining operations.  Adam excels in … Continued

Julie Trotter

Julie Trotter is a Principal Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia who holds a PhD in geochemistry from the Australian National University, and an MSc in palaeontology from Macquarie University. Her research focuses on the geochemistry of marine carbonate and phosphatic skeletons, principally as archives of environmental change on both modern and geological … Continued

Aaron Farber

Aaron Farber grew up outside of Albany, NY. He attended Columbia University as an undergraduate and earned a Bachelors degree in Astrophysics in 2005. During that time, he became interested in remote sensing systems and the enabling technology and learned the value of bridging the gap between the science and the engineering required to capture … Continued

Carson Witte

Carson Witte is a graduate student at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory studying under Dr. Christopher Zappa. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Pomona College, where he designed a joint Physics-Engineering major in collaboration with Harvey Mudd College. Upon graduation in 2016 he joined Dr. Zappa’s lab as a field technician, and … Continued

Thomas Lewis

Thomas Lewis was raised in Prescott, Arizona where he grew up fishing, riding quads in the forest, gazing at the stars, and taking apart computers. While pursuing his aerospace engineering degree at the University of Arizona, he worked an IT job on campus to satisfy both of his passions, computers and building things. After college … Continued

Leena Inkinen

Leena Inkinen is one of Falkor (too)’s Pursers.

Nathan Laxague

Nathan Laxague has lived by the ocean his entire life, growing up in a small town on the Maine coast and spending his undergraduate and graduate years in Miami, Florida. He now resides in New York, New York, working as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. In 2016, he received … Continued

Una Miller

Una Miller is a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, working at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory with Dr. Christopher Zappa. She was born in Seattle, Washington, where she also received her bachelor’s degree in Oceanography from the University of Washington in 2015. Her research involves boundary layer turbulence … Continued