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
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
