Lori L. Summa is a geologist with over 30 years of experience in geoscience, basin analysis research, and petroleum-systems evaluation. She retired as a senior technical consultant with ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company in 2016. In this position, she advised corporate management on strategic geoscience issues to ensure appropriate research was performed in support of business … Continued
Ben Ayton is a fourth year PhD student working in the MERS laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studies Aerospace Engineering and is associated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute through the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. Prior to MIT, Ben received Bachelor of Science degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Physics from the University of … Continued
David Pingal is Systems Software Engineer with Teledyne Webb Research. His main responsibility is adding new capabilities to Slocum Gliders, and on this cruise, he will be working closely with the WHOI research team working on underwater navigation. Since adding the electronic still camera system on the first Jason in 1989, David has worked on … Continued
Gideon Billings is a PhD pre-candidate in Robotics at the University of Michigan in the DROP lab. His areas of specialization are in computer vision, perception and underwater manipulation. Gideon is interested in applying deep learning methods in computer vision towards object recognition, pose estimation and visual servoing in the underwater domain. Gideon has helped … Continued
Nic Bingham has pursued a career in technical research and development, specializing in design of electrical systems for extreme environments. He has spent months at sea supporting and maintaining pressure-tolerant electronics dived to the deepest trenches of the world ocean, and conducted three missions to upgrade autonomous solar-diesel plants supporting radio telescopes on the high … Continued
Meng Feng is a second-year graduate student in AeroAstro Department, MIT and is working as a Research Assistant in Model Based Embedded Robotic Systems (MERS) lab. His current research focuses on robotic grasping and manipulation.
Zach is a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program pursuing a PhD in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering. He earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT in 2018. His current research with the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems (MERS) group at MIT and the Deep Submergence Laboratory at WHOI focuses on risk-aware continuous … Continued
Greg Rouse is a professor of marine biology in the Marine Biology Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and is also curator of the Benthic Invertebrate Collection at Scripps. He specializes in the study of animal biodiversity. Greg’s deep-sea research interests include the study of new hydrothermal vent animals from … Continued
Greg Rouse is a professor of marine biology in the Marine Biology Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and is also curator of the Benthic Invertebrate Collection at Scripps. He specializes in the study of animal biodiversity. Greg’s deep-sea research interests include the study of new hydrothermal vent animals from … Continued
Dave Clague is a marine geologist who studies volcanoes, both on land and under the sea. He is a senior research scientist at MBARI, where he has worked for 22 years. He is also a veteran of 65 oceanographic cruises, with about 2/3 of them using manned submersibles or remotely operated vehicles to observe volcanic … Continued
