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Darren Elvin From Jersey channel Islands Apprentice trained electrical maintenance engineer 11 years ROV experience Enjoys golf and cooking

Paraskevi (Evi) Nomikou is a marine geologist who studies the morphology of underwater volcanoes with extensive experience in marine volcanic and seafloor extruding processes. She is an Assistant Professor at the Dep. of Geology and Geoenvironment of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece). She has participated in more than 70 oceanographic cruises that focused … Continued

Lori L. Summa is a geologist with over 30 years of experience in geoscience, basin analysis research, and petroleum-systems evaluation. She retired as a senior technical consultant with ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company in 2016. In this position, she advised corporate management on strategic geoscience issues to ensure appropriate research was performed in support of business … Continued

Ben Ayton is a fourth year PhD student working in the MERS laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studies Aerospace Engineering and is associated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute through the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. Prior to MIT, Ben received Bachelor of Science degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Physics from the University of … Continued

David Pingal is Systems Software Engineer with Teledyne Webb Research. His main responsibility is adding new capabilities to Slocum Gliders, and on this cruise, he will be working closely with the WHOI research team working on underwater navigation. Since adding the electronic still camera system on the first Jason in 1989, David has worked on … Continued

Gideon Billings is a PhD pre-candidate in Robotics at the University of Michigan in the DROP lab. His areas of specialization are in computer vision, perception and underwater manipulation. Gideon is interested in applying deep learning methods in computer vision towards object recognition, pose estimation and visual servoing in the underwater domain. Gideon has helped … Continued

Meng Feng is a second-year graduate student in AeroAstro Department, MIT and is working as a Research Assistant in Model Based Embedded Robotic Systems (MERS) lab. His current research focuses on robotic grasping and manipulation.

Zach is a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program pursuing a PhD in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering. He earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT in 2018. His current research with the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems (MERS) group at MIT and the Deep Submergence Laboratory at WHOI focuses on risk-aware continuous … Continued

Greg Rouse is a professor of marine biology in the Marine Biology Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and is also curator of the Benthic Invertebrate Collection at Scripps. He specializes in the study of animal biodiversity. Greg’s deep-sea research interests include the study of new hydrothermal vent animals from … Continued