Brian Kieft has been an embedded software engineer at MBARI, in Monterey Bay, California, since 2006. He has worked on various platforms, including mooring controllers, benthic instruments, ASVs, and several AUVs and their associated payloads. Brian currently works on development of the Tethys AUV—a long-range, upper-water-column AUV designed primarily for biological sensing. Apart from development, … Continued
Steve Poulos is Special Projects Engineer for SCOPE. He has been developing and working with unique instrumentation and data acquisition systems in the areas of defense, seismic, and now microbial oceanography. His current effort, in concert with the SCOPE team, is to expand the spatial and temporal oceanographic sampling capability with the use of Autonomous Vehicles … Continued
Nick joined the Marine Trace Element Laboratory (MTEL) at the University of Southern California after finishing his Ph.D in Chemical Oceanography at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. As part of his postdoctoral research, Nick has collected hundreds of samples to better understand the marine iron cycle. Carried on the winds over thousands of … Continued
Paul Den Uyl is a research associate with the DeLong lab at the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology and University of Hawai‘i. Much of his work focuses on contemporary microbiological methods, particularly collection, processing, and sequencing of genomic/transcriptomic activity of microbial life in oligotrophic ocean. He received his B.S. in Geological Science with … Continued
Originally from the south of Spain, Ana Cabello is now a postdoctoral scholar in Jon Zehr’s Lab at the Ocean Sciences department (University of California, Santa Cruz). She developed her thesis studies at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Barcelona (Spain), and got her PhD in Oceanography in 2016. During her PhD she was focused … Continued
Kevin Becker is an organic geochemist working with molecular signatures of microbial communities in the ocean. He has a PhD from the University of Bremen in Germany and is currently a postdoc at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He specializes in studying how and why organisms leave their particular chemical signals in the marine environment … Continued
Fernanda recently completed her PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she specialized in bio-optical coastal oceanography and ocean color remote sensing. Fernanda is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher working with Angel White at Oregon State University. Fernanda is interested in understanding the inter-relationships between optical, biogeochemical and physical properties of the North Pacific … Continued
Corina Barbalata is currently a Research Fellow in the Deep Robot Optical Perception (DROP) Lab in the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Department at University of Michigan. In 2017 she received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, UK. She received in 2013 a double M.S degree in Computer Vision and Robotics from University … Continued
Marlyse is a first-year PhD student in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. She received her B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 2017. Her current research in the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems Group focuses on multi-vehicle online planning, incorporating complex dynamics and constraints. She is also interested in risk-aware … Continued
George is a mechanical engineer working with the underwater group at the ACFR, and has a background in fluid dynamics and mechanical design; with experience in wind tunnel experiments, CFD simulations and system design. As part of the underwater group at ACFR is responsible for AUV maintenance and operations, as well as, designing new components … Continued
