Jarek Kwiecinski is an undergraduate student studying environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Before coming to MIT, he worked with researchers at the University of New Mexico to study microbial growth efficiencies and nutrient cycling in desert soils. He now works as an undergraduate researcher in MIT’s Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences … Continued
Diana graduated from Barry University in December of last year with a bachelor’s degree in Marine Biology and Chemistry, specializing in Biochemistry. She will be joining Dr. Andrew Babbin’s lab at MIT this fall as a graduate student studying the biogeochemistry of nitrogen. Her interests in biogeochemistry stems from past research on the cycling of … Continued
Dr. Karen Casciotti is marine chemist who specializes in tracing the marine nitrogen cycle using stable isotopic measurements. Her current research focuses on understanding how nitrogen is cycled in oceanic suboxic zones. Of particular interest is how microbial processes control the inventory of bioavailable nitrogen in the ocean and the production of nitrous oxide, a … Continued
Colette Kelly is a graduate student in the Casciotti lab at Stanford University. Her area of focus is the cycling of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, in oxygen minimum zones such as the eastern tropical North Pacific Ocean. Through field work, experiments, lab analyses, and modeling, she seeks to understand how climate-related changes to … Continued
Dr. Andrew Babbin is a nitrogen biogeochemist, chemical oceanographer, or microbial ecologist, depending on whom you ask. He and his group study how microorganisms reshape their local environment, whether a coral reef, a hydrothermal vent, or in the case of this cruise, an oxygen minimum zone. The bablab, as they are known around MIT, try … Continued
Elisabeth Boles graduated from MIT with a B.S. in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science in June, 2018. She is an avid ocean lover and is passionate about marine physics and biogeochemistry, and in understanding how these processes will be affected by climate change. She has been a part of Andrew Babbin’s lab group for the … Continued
José da Silva holds a first degree in “Physics/Applied Mathematics (Astronomy)” at the University of Porto (Portugal), an MSc degree in “Remote Sensing, Image Processing and Applications” at the University of Dundee (U.K.) and a PhD in Oceanography at the University of Southampton (U.K.). He worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton … Continued
Martin Ludvigsen is Professor and founder of the Applied Underwater Laboratory (AUR-Lab) at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway and has since been managing the lab. Since 2014 he has held a Professorship in Underwater Technology at the Department of Marine Technology, NTNU while also being a founder of BlueEye Robotics, a novel portable ROV startup. He has … Continued
Paulo Relvas is Professor at the University of Algarve, Portugal, and researcher of CCMAR (Centre of Marine Sciences – Univ. Algarve). He received a PhD in Physical Oceanography from the School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, UK, in 1999. His scientific domain is mesoscale oceanography. His main research areas are the Eastern Boundary Upwelling … Continued
João Teixeira is a Robotics Engineer in a robotics research laboratory (LSTS). He is a software developer (onboard software – control, guidance and navigation) and is also a part of AUV operational team. During the last three years he gained significant experience in field operations, mostly maritime environments (operating from ship) in cooperation with the … Continued
