Jonathan (Jon) is an Electrical Engineer for the ROPOS System with Highland Technologies/Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility. During the deployment, he will be acting as both a pilot and electrical technician for the ROV. He has over five years of experience with the ROPOS system, primarily in supporting its electrical, telemetry, and power systems. A graduate … Continued
Peter is a Mechanical ROV Technician with Highland Technologies/Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility. Peter will provide technical support of the hydraulic and mechanical systems on ROPOS, as well as acting as a pilot and manipulator operator. He will also provide integration support for mechanical aspects of the science equipment being equipped on ROPOS. Peter has been … Continued
Keith is the Assistant General Manager for the ROPOS team with Highland Technologies/Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility. During the cruise, he will be acting as an operations supervisor, deck commander for ROV operations, pilot, and electrical technician. Keith is primarily responsible for assisting with the management of the ROPOS ROV, and overseeing design and fabrication of … Continued
Ian is a ROPOS ROV Technician with Highland Technologies/Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility. During both legs of the cruise, Ian will be piloting the vehicle as well as integrating scientific sampling and monitoring equipment onto the ROV. Ian has worked offshore with ROPOS for the last 15 years in a variety of capacities including pilot, co-pilot, … Continued
Keith is the General Manager of the ROPOS team. During the first leg of the cruise he will be overseeing the ROPOS crew as the operational supervisor, as well as acting as a pilot and manipulator operator. Keith began working with research submersibles in 1981, by piloting manned submersibles to depths of 2000 metres. Over … Continued
Monika Bright is a Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria and is appointed head of the Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography and Vice Study Program Director of Ph.D. studies at the Faculty of Life Sciences. Monika received her Ph.D. in zoology and paleontology at the University of Vienna in 1992 and her habilitation in … Continued
Sam Vohsen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biological Sciences at Lehigh University working with Dr. Santiago Herrera. He received a Ph.D. in Biology from the Pennsylvania State University in 2019, studying the impacts of hydrocarbon seeps on deep-sea coral communities and the microbial associates of deep-sea corals. The majority of his research has focused … Continued
Dr. Vicki Ferrini is a Research Scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She received her B.A. in Geology/Biology from Colby College, and went on to earn a M.S. in Marine Environmental Science and Ph.D. in Coastal Oceanography at Stony Brook University. Her research focuses on using mapping techniques to understand the processes that shape … Continued
Dr. Roxanne Beinart is an NSF Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Roxanne received a B.S. in microbiology from Cornell University in 2006 and a PhD from Harvard University in 2013. Her research focuses on understanding the physiology of microbial symbionts and their role in shaping ecosystem processes. … Continued
Jenny Delaney is the lab manager for Dr. Peter Girguis at Harvard University. She received her B.A. in Biology from Ripon College and her M.S. in Marine Science-Biological Oceanography from the University of South Florida. She then worked as a technician at USF, participating in research cruises and performing toxicity assays in response to the Deepwater … Continued
