Expedition Leader, Mapping Coordinator, And Lead Navigator
CurrentI have participated in ~70 research expeditions aboard Dr. Robert Ballard’s E/V Nautilus, supporting deep ocean research using multibeam sonar for seafloor mapping efforts, providing sub-surface navigation for remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), and participating in live educational telepresence. The projects I have worked on include exploration in marine biology, marine geology (hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, and seamounts), marine archaeology (shipwrecks), and marine engineering (cabled network observatories). Collaborators and funders have included NOAA, NASA, US National Marine Sanctuaries, Charles Darwin Foundation, Ocean Networks Canada, National Geographic, Harvard University, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Locations of these scientific cruises have been global in scale, studying regions in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Galapagos Islands, Channel Islands, Revillagigedo Islands, Gulf of California, offshore British Columbia, Hawaiian Islands, American Samoa, and other locations in the remote Pacific Ocean.
