Tea Isler is a PhD student at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany. Her interests focus around 3D reconstruction of hydrothermal vents in polar regions using photogrammetric techniques and processing and interpretation of multibeam data from both ship and ROV/AUVs echosounders.
Tea has a background in Mathematics and Statistics, but it was during her master in Geospatial Data Analysis at the UCD (Ireland) that she got to experience life at sea and discovered the world of seabed mapping. What brought her to AWI is her interest in the close collaboration with the international project Seabed2030 and the pursuit of multibeam data in remote and still uncharted areas of the world.
Tea participated in 2 Arctic expeditions collecting multibeam, sonar and optical data using AWI’s towed camera system OFOBS (Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System). The 2 expeditions focused on a time-series study at the Long-Term Ecological Research observatory HAUSGARTEN and an Arctic Lithosphere-Ocean Interaction Study (ALOIS) where she engaged with the WHOI/JPL team onboard deploying the HROV NUI.
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