Carson Witte is a graduate student at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory studying under Dr. Christopher Zappa. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Pomona College, where he designed a joint Physics-Engineering major in collaboration with Harvey Mudd College. Upon graduation in 2016 he joined Dr. Zappa’s lab as a field technician, and … Continued
Thomas Lewis was raised in Prescott, Arizona where he grew up fishing, riding quads in the forest, gazing at the stars, and taking apart computers. While pursuing his aerospace engineering degree at the University of Arizona, he worked an IT job on campus to satisfy both of his passions, computers and building things. After college … Continued
Leena Inkinen is one of Falkor (too)’s Pursers.
Nathan Laxague has lived by the ocean his entire life, growing up in a small town on the Maine coast and spending his undergraduate and graduate years in Miami, Florida. He now resides in New York, New York, working as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. In 2016, he received … Continued
Una Miller is a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, working at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory with Dr. Christopher Zappa. She was born in Seattle, Washington, where she also received her bachelor’s degree in Oceanography from the University of Washington in 2015. Her research involves boundary layer turbulence … Continued
Kelly Luis is a PhD student in Dr. Zhongping Lee’s Optical Oceanography Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Her research focuses on the fusion of ocean color satellite imagery for water quality monitoring. Aboard the R/V Falkor, Kelly will assist Dr. Ajit Subramaniam in taking above-water and in-water spectroradiometry measurements. Before graduate school, Kelly received … Continued
Dr. Oliver Wurl is a scientist and head of the group “Processes and sensing of marine interfaces” at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. His research interests include the air-sea interaction, sea surface, carbon cycling and aerosol chemistry, and using that knowledge to contribute … Continued
Antonella Wilby is a PhD student and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the Contextual Robotics Institute, UC San Diego, and a National Geographic Explorer. Her current research focuses on the development of autonomous underwater robots and vision-based algorithms for mapping and exploration of ocean environments, with the ultimate goal of better understanding and … Continued
Nicholas is currently an undergraduate sophomore at the University of Hawaii at Manoa majoring in global environmental science under SOEST (the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology). During his time at UH, he has interned with Shawn Murakawa to try and better understand the life of Hawaiian sea turtles in the pelagic areas … Continued
Kyra is a recent graduate from Hawaii Pacific University with a BS in Marine Biology. Although she originally grew up in a landlocked state, her passion for the ocean truly bloomed from the heart and took her thousands of miles away to the islands in order to to study science in college. During her time … Continued
