Nicole is originally from Australia and grew up in Adelaide, South Australia. She completed her PhD in 2021 at the University of Adelaide and worked at Flinders University as a postdoc from 2021-2022. She is interested in applying molecular methods to monitor biodiversity and protect marine ecosystems. Nicole has a particular interest in marine and coastal plants and their conservation. She also loves anything involved with the ocean and if she's not working in the laboratory, you’ll find her surfing, snorkeling, diving and generally spending time outdoors.

Brian is an ecologist and uses laboratory and field approaches to ask questions about coastal marine systems. His interests are general, but his lab group focuses on global change in the nearshore, specifically ecological and evolutionary responses to climate change. Brian also works on species invasions and marine protected areas by collecting empirical lab and field data but also conducting synthesis work via meta-analysis.

Jessica is a postdoctoral fellow at STRI and PU where she uses geochemical techniques to reconstruct changes in past marine food webs. One of her primary tools in this pursuit is using fish trophic level as a metric to quantify ecological variations. Jessica completed her PhD in Geosciences at Princeton University in 2019 and B.A. in Biology at Colby College in 2009.

Isis is a postdoctoral researcher working at The University of Hong Kong in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institute.

Eliza is a marine ecologist researching ecological processes and community dynamics on urban shorelines. She received her PhD from the University of Washington in 2017, MS from Virginia Tech in 2007, and BS from Emory University in 2004. Upon completion of her PhD, she served as a postdoc at the National University of Singapore for two years before returning to the Friday Harbor Labs (UW) in 2019 to establish long-term monitoring programs for the newly formed MarineGEO-FHL Observatory.

Erica Staaterman is a marine bioacoustician who is fascinated with the chirps, rumbles, buzzes, and grunts of marine species. During her academic career, she conducted bioacoustics research on a range of species and ecosystems. Today, she is the bioacoustics team lead at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) Center for Marine Acoustics. BOEM oversees the responsible development of energy and marine mineral resources on the outer continental shelf.

Matthieu obtained his PhD at the University of Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France) in 2012. He was a MarineGEO postdoc at the NMNH from 2013 to 2015 before moving to STRI in 2016. His research broadly focusses on understanding the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that drive patterns of diversity in the oceans. Matthieu also studies the role of trophic and symbiotic interactions in promoting the stability and resilience of marine communities as they face unprecedented changes using a combinations of broad scale surveys, molecular and experimental approaches. 

Maggie originally hails from a small town in midcoast Maine, and after finishing her undergrad at Colby College, she spread her roots and began traveling far and wide to tropical locations across the globe. Throughout her research Maggie has come to know and love the coral reefs of the tropical Pacific, from the coralline algae she studied on reefs in French Polynesia during her MS degree at Cal State University Northridge to the coral reef communities she studied in the Line Islands during her PhD at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.