Originally hailing from Chicago, Emily now resides on the central coast of California as a Research Engineering Technician in Kakani Katija’s MBARI Bioinspiration Lab. She supports the design and deployment of imaging systems that digitally capture ocean animals. She integrates machine learning and science communication by managing data and producing multimedia content for FathomNet programs, … Continued
Elio J. Challita is a Schmidt Science Fellow and postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory. He earned his PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology, his MS from the University of Georgia, and his BE from the Lebanese American University. His research bridges biophysics, smart materials, and micro- and field-robotics, combining fieldwork in the … Continued
Dr. Field’s is a zooplankton ecologist. The Fields’ laboratory studies the role of zooplankton (particularly copepods) in transferring organic matter through the food web and in mediating bio-geochemical cycling in the oceans. Our approach is to understand how the mechanisms that occur at the level of the individual animal drive regional and global scale distribution … Continued
Cheryl Lewis Ames Graduated from Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada) with a degree in Biology (after trasnferring from Fine Arts), and then went on to a master’s program at the University of the Ryukyus (Okinawa, Japan) in Marine Sciences. After obatinaing another BA in French Literature at the University of Otawa (Canada), she completed her doctorate … Continued
I am a PhD student at Tohoku University (Graduate School of Agricultural Science) in Sendai, Japan, working in the International Marine Science Lab (Ames Lab). My research focuses on venom biology and multi-omics approaches to better understand and detect box jellyfish, including developing environmental DNA (eDNA)–based early warning tools. During the OceanShot 2026 Falkor (too) … Continued
Esther Mak is a postdoctoral researcher at the Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana. She earned her Ph.D. in Ocean Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she focused on the microbial ecology of nitrogen-fixing microorganisms. At SUBSEA, she applies molecular biology tools to investigate how nitrogen fixers and other microbial groups … Continued
Tully is a environmental science graduate of Colby College in Maine. His background as a seagoing oceanographic technician spans nearly 800 days at sea over eight years of mooring and instrument operations at Oregon State University and another seven at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as a member of Angel White’s lab and the Hawaiʻi … Continued
Susan Garcia is originally from San Diego, California, and completed her undergraduate degree in Biology and Chemistry at Brandeis University. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington, where she works in the Ingalls Lab studying marine microbial metabolomics.Susan’s research focuses on how phytoplankton like Thalassiosira spp. … Continued
Robert Hall is Distinguished Professor of Limnology at Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana, where he has worked since 2017. Prior to that he was on the faculty at University of Wyoming where he started in 1998. Since graduate school at University of Georgia he has been interested in aquatic carbon and nitrogen cycling. … Continued
