Taylor Simpkins is from California, where she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Marine Science at the University of San Diego. Taylor has worked for the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), San Diego State University (SDSU), and Hubbs Research Institute as a scientific diver on kelp, seagrass, and fish stock restoration projects in temperate systems. … Continued
Todd Bond has been immersed in the ocean from a very young age while growing up in Perth, Western Australia. He pursued his passion for natural sciences and the marine environment at The University of Western Australia where he received an honours degree in Marine Science. Following graduation, he took several appointments with UWA as … Continued
Kaycee Handley is a Master of Research candidate in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). Her research uses isotope geochemistry to improve our understanding of the causes and consequences of oceanic anoxic events. She completed a Bachelor of Science at Macquarie University in 2018 where she majored in climate … Continued
Sara Hajbane is a physical oceanographer and archaeologist currently undertaking a PhD in environmental engineering at the University of Western Australia, where she has previously completed her Bachelors and Honours degrees. Her current project aims to understand the oceanographic processes that create areas with high plastic concentrations in coastal waters. Her focus for this project … Continued
Netra Sagar joined the Australian Research Council’s Coral Reef Centre of Excellence group at the University of Western Australia as a PhD candidate in 2017. His research aims to reconstruct climate and anthropogenic signals on the Indian Ocean margins using the geochemistry of scleractinian corals and larger foraminifera. His principal supervisors are Professor Malcolm McCulloch, … Continued
Ana Hara is a Technical Officer working in the Crustacea and Worm’s Section at the Western Australian Museum (WAM). Ana completed a Master’s degree at the University of Western Australia in 2008, investigating New Zealand fur seal ecology. Her undergraduate degree in biology was completed in her homeland at the University of São Paulo, in … Continued
Carlin Bowyer has held the position of Field Operations Manager for the last 6 years with the University of Western Australia’s Coastal and Ocean Dynamics Group, which is part of UWA’s node of the Australian Research Council’s Coral Reef Centre of Excellence. Carlin has a background in Marine and Environmental science, specializing in spatial information … Continued
Andrew Hosie has held the position of Curator of Crustacea and Worms at the Western Australian Museum (WAM) since 2009. Most of his research has focused on the crustacean diversity of the tropical reefs of Australia’s northwest. Andrew has worked with many facets of crustacean research, such as commercial fisheries, invasive species, and reproductive ecology, … Continued
Claudio obtained his degree in Earth Sciences at the University of Padua in 1987, became lecturer at the same University in 1990 and has been working as an Associate Professor in Petrology and Petrography since December 2002. Currently, he teaches courses in Applied Petrography, Optical Microscopy and Field Geology for Bachelor, and Master degrees in … Continued
Alessandro Remia (‘Dando’) is a Marine Technologist at the Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR-CNR) in Bologna. He graduated at the University of Bologna with a thesis on Cool-Water biogenic factories and his initial research focused upon submerged Pleistocene-age Mediterranean deep-water corals. He has considerable oceanographic experience encompassing logistics, seabed sampling and geophysical data acquisition and … Continued
