Bryan O’Malley is a benthic ecologist and foraminiferal taxonomist who specializes in the ecology of foraminifera and their utility as indicators of environmental change. He spent 8 years as a researcher studying the effects of oil spills on the benthic ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico and has 7 published papers concerning the subject. O’Malley has experience monitoring yearly time series sites from the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout (2010) as well as revisiting sites from the IXTOC oil spill (1979) after 35 years to investigate the fate of anthropogenic impact events over long time scales and how they affect benthic ecosystems. He is currently the head consultant for Ecofera, LLC and principal investigator for the foraminiferal, radioisotope, and phytopigment workscopes for a CCZ lease area baseline and collector test impact assessment in collaboration with Eckerd College. He has procured and managed various grant funding and industry contracts for foraminiferal and geochemical monitoring purposes. O’Malley has been the lead field scientist responsible for overseeing the various multi-core workscopes (eDNA, forams, phytopigment, radioisotopes, archiving) on three baseline cruises to the CCZ and one post-PCV test monitoring cruise.
Listed skills include Bass Guitar, Paleontology, Bagpipes, Aquarium Design And Maintenance, and 14 others.
