Dhara Azevedo holds a B.Sc. in Biological Sciences from the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil, and is currently a master’s student in the Grupo de Ecologia Bêntica at the Oceanography and Ecology Department at the same university. Her work focuses on monitoring benthic communities to identify ecological patterns across spatial and temporal scales … Continued
Dr. Daniela Yepes Gaurisas is a marine benthic ecologist and postdoctoral fellow in the Grupo de Ecologia Bêntica at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Brazil. Her research focuses on taxonomy, biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and the response of benthic communities to climate change and human pressures across the Atlantic Ocean, from sandy shores … Continued
André R. Rodrigues is an associate researcher at the Marine Geosciences Laboratory (LaboGeo), Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil. He is a biologist with a B.Sc. in Biological Sciences (2000), an M.Sc. (2003), and a Ph.D. (2008) in Oceanography (Biological Oceanography).A specialist in Marine Micropaleontology, Dr. Rodrigues uses benthic foraminifera as proxies for environmental … Continued
I am a geologist by training, and did my Master’s and PhD in Marine Geology and Geophysics. Since 2004, I have been a Professor at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, teaching Ocean Mapping, Submarine Geomorphology, Marine Stratigraphy, Carbonate Sedimentology, and Seabed Habitat Mapping. I have acted as supervisor of 12 post-docs, 11 PhD students, and … Continued
www.ayoungkim.com Ayoung Kim (born in and based in Seoul, South Korea) weaves reality anew through a tapestry of hybrid fictions, integrating geopolitics, biopolitics, mythology, technology, technoprecarity, and speculative temporalities into her work. Kim often depicts nonconformists or technoprecarious entities whose resistance or misalignment leaves behind strange and singular traces as they deviate from prescribed trajectories. … Continued
Silvina Botta is a biologist who graduated from the National University of La Plata in Argentina. She holds a PhD and MSc degrees in Biological Oceanography from the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG) in Brazil, where she is currently a professor and researcher at the Institute of Oceanography. She is the coleader of the … Continued
Samantha is an honours student and officer at the University of Western Australia (UWA) with extensive experience in data administration and analysis. She completed her undergraduate degree in marine biology at UWA in 2012 and recently re-joined the field, pursuing a lifelong passion for marine invertebrate ecology. As a member of the Hemmi Lab, she … Continued
Dr. Russ Hopcroft is Chair and Professor of Oceanography at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He received his MSc in 1988 and his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. His graduate research focused upon plankton ecology in the tropical waters surrounding Jamaica, West Indies. From 1997 to 1999, Dr. Hopcroft was … Continued
I hold a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences, with a doctorate in Zoology at the University of São Paulo (USP). I completed my postdoctoral studies at IB-USP, with an internship at Kitasato University School of Marine Biosciences, Japan. I’m a faculty at the Institute of Oceanography at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), working … Continued
Neera Raychaudhuri is a second year PhD student at Harvard University studying Engineering Sciences, with a concentration in Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, she works in the Microrobotics Laboratory under Prof. Robert Wood on research topics in bioinspired and biodegradable robotics, hoping to design sustainable robots for field applications. … Continued
