Victoria Orphan is a geobiologist studying the interactions between microorganisms in extreme environments including deep-sea methane seeps and vents. She currently holds the James Irvine Professorship of Environmental Science and Geobiology in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech. Orphan received her Ph.D. in the Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology program at the … Continued
Daan Speth is a postdoc at Caltech, working on the microbial communities in diverse extreme environments. He applies a mix of bioinformatics and wet lab methods to gain insight in the role of microbes in the environment. Prior to his work at Caltech, Daan obtained his Ph.D. from the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, … Continued
Dr. Shana Goffredi is an Associate Professor of Biology at Occidental College. Her research interests mainly concern beneficial symbiotic partnerships between bacteria and marine invertebrates. For 25 years, she has been exploring the deep ocean. She focuses on the physiology and biochemistry of deep-sea symbiotic systems, within the context of ecological questions and how environmental … Continued
Nicole Pedersen is a staff researcher in the Sandin Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where she works on the 100 Island Challenge, a project which aims to describe and understand the variation and structure of coral reefs across the globe. For this project she oversees processing of large area imagery, using photogrammetry to render … Continued
Chris McRaven recently joined the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a research engineer. His interests are in developing instrumentation for imaging, chemical sensing, and communications. His previous experience includes precision spectroscopy using femtosecond lasers and designing microscopes for neuroscience. Chris completed a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Oklahoma. He will be supporting the … Continued
Brandon Enalls is graduate student in the Girguis Laboratory at Harvard University and is interested in better understanding the physiology of microbes that live in “extreme” environments. More specifically, his graduate research is focused on microbes living inside of hydrothermal vent chimney walls and how they use redox chemistry to obtain energy from the minerals … Continued
Tyler served four years as an infantryman in the United States Army before earning his B.Sc. in Biology from the University of San Francisco. He spent three years as a research associate mapping distant-acting transcriptional enhancers in the Mammalian Functional Genomics Laboratory at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Currently, Tyler is a Ph.D. student in the … Continued
Leticia Cavole is a third-year graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. A native of Brazil, Cavole grew up in the small countryside city of Barretos in the state of Sao Paulo. She received her undergraduate degree in oceanography at the University Federal of Rio Grande (FURG), the … Continued
Alex’s award-winning work as a photographer and filmmaker combines a passion for environmental science (and a background in glaciology) with a love of photography and exploration. Alex travels alongside environmental scientists on research expeditions around the world, capturing stories of their adventures – from the everyday to the extraordinary, portraying the human face of science. … Continued
Originally from Brest, France, Léo-Paul has been an engineer at WHOI since 2011 after graduating with a Masters in Electronics Engineering from ENIB (Ecole Nationale d’Ingenieurs de Brest). He has since been working on WHOI’s Optical Modem series of instruments, enabling fast Ethernet connectivity underwater anywhere between 10Gbps at contact, to 10Mbps at 100m as … Continued
