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Kourtney Lewis is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography working with Dr. Brendan Roark at Texas A&M University. She received her Bachelor’s of Science in Geology at the University of Oklahoma. Her research focuses on understanding the resilience and vulnerability of deep-sea communities to anthropogenic influence using stable isotope analysis. She is currently … Continued

Virginia Biede is a deep-sea ecologist interested in community structure and disturbance ecology. After spending several years on commercial fishing trawlers as a fisheries observer, Virginia is committed to studying the recovery of natural habitats as she has seen first hand how they can be easily disturbed. Virginia will be starting as a graduate student … Continued

David Bowen is an award-winning studio artist and educator whose work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. Bowen’s work is concerned with aesthetics that result from interactive, reactive, and generative processes as they relate to intersections between natural and mechanical systems. He is currently an Associate Professor of Sculpture … Continued

Gabrielle “Gabby” N. Ellis is a PhD student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is a deep-sea ecologist who asks questions about community ecology dynamics over space, time, and habitat. Her specialization is on invertebrates from the abyssal Pacific (~ 4000m deep) that live in sediment, on polymetallic nodules, or in the water … Continued

Christine Lee has an interdisciplinary practice straddling art, design, science and sustainability. She draws from a variety of investigation methods where intuitive direct-hand manipulation, traditional craft processes, and computer-aided technology are the central part of her research tools. She has traveled to numerous residencies and is involved in collaborations with artists and scientists. Her work … Continued

Sydney Adams is a senior at Maine Maritime Academy finishing her B.S. in Marine Science with a minor in Small Vessel Operations. Last summer, she was an environmental technician intern in a salmon processing plant in Cordova Alaska. At school, she is part of the volleyball team and waterfront student staff. She is currently a … Continued

Dr. Henrietta Dulai is an Associate Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Dulai is a geochemist who studies the chemical cycles and distribution of land-based solutes focusing on coastal hydrology, as well as shelf- and ocean basin … Continued

Isabela is currently an undergraduate senior at Boston University majoring in marine science. During her time at BU she has joined the Rotjan Marine Ecology Lab where she is investigating nutrient translocation in Astrangia poculata, a facultative symbiotic temperate coral. Her focus has been on coral physiology specifically asking questions related to symbiosis and colonialism. By … Continued