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Molly is a visual artist, map-maker and geographer.  She discovered geography at Middlebury College and the power of map-making during a world-traveling Watson Fellowship upon graduation. She went on to receive a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and Ph.D. in Human Geography from the University of Colorado, Boulder to explore the ways digital maps … Continued

Lucy Bellwood is a tall ship-sailing, dual citizen cartoonist best known for her adventurous autobiographical comics. A graduate of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Lucy specializes in traveling the world and bringing back tales of unconventional derring-do in visual form. She is the author and illustrator of Baggywrinkles: a Lubber’s Guide to Life at Sea, … Continued

Kirsten is a scientific illustrator, children’s book illustrator-author, and is currently Artist in Residence at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology, in the Maker Lab. She studied marine science at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, San Francisco State University and received a graduate certificate in Science Communication from the University of … Continued

Dr Amanda E Bates is Lecturer within Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton.  Her research focusses on marine systems from the poles to hydrothermal vents to investigate how environmental variability influences the ability of animals to cope with temperature stress.

Dr. Antonio Mannino, research oceanographer of the Ocean Ecology Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center since 2002, is currently Deputy Project Scientist for Oceans on NASA’s PACE mission. He was previously a Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow research chemist at the U.S. Geological Survey. Dr. Mannino began his graduate work at the University of Texas (UT; … Continued

Melissa Omand is an Oceanographer with broad interdisciplinary interests. She applies her training in physics and physical oceanography to examine biogeochemical and ecological processes throughout the upper ocean and twilight zone. She is captivated by the challenges of making observations in a vast, and often harsh, ocean environment, and thrives upon designing or combining sensors, … Continued

Dr. Jeremy Werdell is a satellite oceanographer from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland.  At GSFC, Jeremy also serves as the Project Scientist for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission to be launched in late 2022.  Jeremy grew up in Vernon, Connecticut.  He received his Bachelors of Arts in Biology … Continued

Dr. Dan Carlson is an observational physical oceanographer with interests in ocean transport and mixing. Dr. Carlson received his M.S. in Physical Oceanography at Florida State University in March 2007 and then traveled to the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel on a Fulbright Grant. After the Fulbright, Dr. Carlson returned to Israel to study … Continued