Giancarlo Troni is a Principal Engineer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), with a focus on the control and estimation of underwater robotics systems. He has a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and has previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at both the University of Michigan and MBARI, where he worked extensively … Continued
Dr. Florian Neumann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Mexican Center for Innovation in Geothermal Energy. Florian studies heat flow and physical properties such as thermal conductivity in marine environments. At CEMIE-Geo Florian is using heat flow observations and theory to understand the geodynamics of rifting and the thermal regime in oceanic crust. On the … Continued
Raquel Negrete-Aranda earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM) School of Engineering in Mexico City. After a short period working for the industry, she reconnected with her life-long science interest and earned a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences at CICESE. Her dissertation was on magmatic evolution of volcanic … Continued
Robert Zierenberg is an emeritus professor of Geology in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California-Davis. His research has focused on water/rock interactions in hydrothermal systems, including submarine hot springs on the mid-ocean ridge spreading centers and active geothermal systems that produce electricity with low carbon emissions. He was an undergraduate at … Continued
Robert Zierenberg is an emeritus professor of Geology in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California-Davis. His research has focused on water/rock interactions in hydrothermal systems, including submarine hot springs on the mid-ocean ridge spreading centers and active geothermal systems that produce electricity with low carbon emissions. He was an undergraduate at … Continued
Néstor Ramírez-Zerpa studied geological engineering in the engineer faculty at the Universidad de los Andes (ULA), in Mérida, Venezuela. He has a master in applied geophysics (CICESE) and currently is a phD student oceanography coastal in the Marine Sciences Faculty at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) in Ensenada, Baja California, México. He has … Continued
As an undergrad, Ronald Spelz studied oceanography in the Marine Sciences Faculty at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) in Ensenada, Baja California, México. He worked for eight straight years in marine and coastal civil engineering projects before getting his Ph.D. in earth sciences at CICESE. Since then he’s participated in several research projects … Continued
Ekin received his BSc. degree in biology in 2010 and continued his graduate education with a MSc. degree in Organismic, Evolutionary and Paleobiology from the University of Bonn. Both his bachelor’s and master’s research was conducted in the lab of Prof. Dr. Heike Wägele at the Zoological Research Museum Koenig. He studied the evolution of … Continued
Rob Harris is an expert in marine heat flow. He earned a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Utah and completed post-docs at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami and the Masacchusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently a professor of geophysics at Oregon State … Continued
I have always had a passion for the ocean and the plethora of marine creatures that call it home. My itching curiosity to explore the biodiversity and evolution of marine invertebrates inspired me to become a proud member of Greg Rouse’s Marine Invertebrates Phylogenetics Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. As the lab manager, my … Continued
