Katelyn DiBenedetto is the Program Manager for MarineGEO at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. In this role, she helps manage the collaborative, global research program, including leading communication strategies, creating and implementing events and programming, streamlining processes and ensuring their alignment with SI policies and practices, and helping with budget and stakeholder management. 

Bibi is the data technician for MarineGEO. He develops and runs data pipelines to help the lab receive and curate data in a systematic and efficient way. Bibi is a part of the MarineGEO Central Team, based at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland.

Bibi is curious about investigating large-scale ecological data. He hopes to explore the implications of daily ecological interactions at broader spatial and temporal scales. His previous research looked at how historic changes in water flow affect fish populations along rivers in Colorado. 

Jaxine joined the Smithsonian in the winter of 2020 as a data technician for MarineGEO and the Coastal Carbon Network. In this position, she engages in the curation, synthesis, and publishing of data from coastal ecosystems, manages databases, and develops tools for data access and exploration. Jaxine holds a B.A. in Biology from Northeastern University, where she focused on marine and environmental science.

Leah has been working with MarineGEO since 2018. As Central Technician, her focus is the coordination, logistics, and execution of fieldwork. She began her marine field research and scientific diving career in 2010, spending an undergraduate semester studying coral reef ecology in Bonaire. She completed her M.S. in 2017, with a thesis that explored the relationships between life-history stages of corals in a high-latitude community.

Roy has been a grant funded Research Ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) since 2015. He received a BA in Biology from Grinnell College (1996) and a PhD in Forest Ecology from the University of Minnesota (2005). His research work operates at the interface of technology and ecology. Roy specializes in designing, building, and programming experiments. His work focuses on technology to examine how global change factors such as warming, sea level rise, or elevated CO2 affects ecosystem processes and functions.

Jon is a trained marine community ecologist with a particular interest in the role that biodiversity plays in sustaining natural systems. He has worked in a variety of ecosystems but has an enduring love for seagrasses. Jon also develops statistical methods, namely “structural equation modeling,” one of the fastest-growing techniques in the natural sciences. He received his B.A. in Biology from Colby College in 2009 and his Ph.D. in Marine Science from the College of William and Mary in 2015.

Dr. J. Emmett Duffy is the founding Director of the Smithsonian’s Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network (TMON) and MarineGEO program, headquartered at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland. MarineGEO is a growing global network of coastal marine life observatories building the scientific foundation to address the intertwined challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss.

Michael is the data coordinator for MarineGEO and the Coastal Carbon Coordination Network, based out of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. He leads the development of MarineGEO's data system to ensure that MarineGEO data is high-quality, accessible, and reusable for MarineGEO partners and the public.

Michelle Rossman is the Program Assistant for MarineGEO at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, MD. Michelle assists in running the day-to-day operations of MarineGEO including travel coordination, procurement and communications. She received her B.S. in business administration and marketing from UMUC in 2013.