Daniel Hoer is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University where his research centers on the biogeochemistry of seafloor hydrothermal vent and cold seep systems. He’s particularly interested in how mega- and micro-faunal communities modulate dissolved chemical flux. His work involves a focus on the development of new methods and technologies to facilitate addressing intractable questions. … Continued
Anna Michel has BS degrees in Chemical Engineering and Biology and an MS in Ocean Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has a PhD in Mechanical and Oceanographic Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program. After her PhD, Anna completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton … Continued
Veronique Oldham is currently a Post-doctoral Scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Veronique received her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Oceanography working with Dr. Luther at the University of Delaware. Her current oceanographic research unites two strands of biogeochemical inquiry: the impacts of changing redox conditions on … Continued
Abby Keller is a research assistant in Erik Cordes’ lab at Temple University, and she will be studying deep-sea coral and other members of the macro-faunal community at the Cascadia margin to understand how the methane seep is supporting life at various trophic levels. She graduated from Haverford College in 2017, and she has spent … Continued
Originally from Palma de Mallorca, Miquel Massot is a PhD student in Systems, Robotics and Vision research group in the University of the Balearic Islands. His PhD focuses in real time three-dimensional reconstruction using laser and imaging sensors. He has worked with ROVs and AUVs both using custom or ROS middlewares and has also experience … Continued
Koike Tetsu is a technician of Kaiyo Engineering Co., Ltd. and a cooperative researcher of the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo (IIS-UT). His work includes undersea survey using multi beam sonar, programming data analysis, machine maintenance, and so on. He frequently boards ships on fishery survey, ocean bottom topography survey, seabed resource survey … Continued
Kiminori Shitashima is a professor of School of Marine Resources and Environment at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology in Japan from 2016. His background is marine geochemistry, and he has been developing in-situ chemical sensors (pH/pCO2/ORP sensor, gamma ray sensor, trace metal sensor, etc) and applying them for various oceanographic researches. Kiminori gained his Ph.D. degree … Continued
Jonghyun Ahn is an Assistant Professor of Human Intelligence Systems at Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan. His research field is underwater imaging system, which contains image enhancement, analysis and acoustic transmission for images. Jonghyun received his Ph.D in Underwater Robotics at Kyushu Institute of Technology in 2017. Research keywords: Computer vision, Acoustic communication, Robotics
Adrian Bodenmann is a senior research assistant at the University of Southampton. His research interests are focussed on visual seafloor mapping. He has co-developed four underwater mapping devices using laser scanning for photographic survey of the bottom of the ocean and developed an algorithm for converting the collected data into three dimensional digital reconstructions. He … Continued
Kazunori Nagano is an Employee of Naval Ship Engineering Dept. Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and project researcher at University of Tokyo. His main work at the university is maintenance and operation of AUV which named AE2000f / AE2000a / Boss-A. Recentry hes work is development the AUV for Team Kuroshio. Nagano graduated with a … Continued
