Originally from northern Germany, Christian is now staff researcher at the Marine Geoscience department at GNS Science in New Zealand. After finishing school in provincial northern Germany, he joined the University of Kiel to study marine geology. A few years later he received his Diploma from the University of Kiel, followed by a PhD in … Continued
Dr. Hu Wang specializes in marine chemistry at the School of Ocean and Earth Science, Tongji University, China. He has conducted research on geochemical characteristics of hydrothermal plumes. Recently, he is interested in organic iron ligands in hydrothermal plumes, and its effect on the global oceanic dissolved iron inventory. He received his M.S. in marine … Continued
Aranteiti joined fisheries in 2004, working with the Research and Monitoring Unit doing mostly coastal fisheries surveys, including fish count and invertebrate survey. In 2010 he joined the PIPA Team and also went on the 2015 PIPA Expedition. He is a member of the PIPA Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) and a counterpart for visiting scientists … Continued
Tony McCann is one of Falkor’s Chief Officers and is from Paisley, Scotland.
David Gruber is Professor of Biology at City University of New York, Baruch College & The CUNY Graduate Center; Emerging Explorer at the National Geographic Society and Research Associate in Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History. His research pertains to marine biology, photosynthesis genomics and biofluorescence/bioluminescence on coral reefs. He and his collaborators have … Continued
David Gruber is Professor of Biology at City University of New York, Baruch College & The CUNY Graduate Center; Emerging Explorer at the National Geographic Society and Research Associate in Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History. His research pertains to marine biology, photosynthesis genomics and biofluorescence/bioluminescence on coral reefs. He and his collaborators have … Continued
Val recently completed her PhD in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, specializing in high-temperature stable and radiogenic isotope geochemistry. Currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the SOEST Isotope Lab at University of Hawaii at Manoa, she is interested in the origins and nature of mantle heterogeneity expressed through oceanic … Continued
Luke McCartin is a Ph.D. Candidate at Lehigh University in Dr. Santiago Herrera’s lab. Luke grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and has spent his life pursuing a deeper knowledge of the ocean. He has a passion for understanding how the marine life in different parts of the oceans differs and how the distribution of … Continued
Tim Shank is a deep-sea biologist, an Associate Scientist in the Biology Department, and the former Director of the Ocean Exploration Institute at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The research in his lab is focused on understanding the ecological and evolutionary processes that structure the diversity of deep-ocean benthic communities, including larval dispersal, colonization, habitat … Continued
Anna Gauthier is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at Harvard University. Her research utilizes molecular biology to interrogate how the immune systems of aquatic animals interact with their surrounding microbial environment to promote host repair and defense. Specifically, on the R/V Falkor, Anna will be researching how the primordial immune systems of basal metazoans interact with … Continued
