She has worked in the Arctic and Antarctica on geological and glaciological research expeditions and remotely, using satellite data.
Anriëtte (Annie) Bekker is a lecturer and professor at Stellenbosch University in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering. She studies the vibration responses of polar supply and research vessels in the Arctic and Antarctic.
Dr. Michelle Taylor is a deep-sea ecologist whose PhD focused on sub-Antarctic benthic organisms, specifically coral. She is interested in how populations across the vast deep sea are connected. She has a deep-sea cucumber and a deep-sea coral named after her!
Dr. Lucy Woodall is a marine biologist with a PhD in the conservation genetics of European seahorses. Her work broadly focuses on the processes that drive biodiversity in the marine biome, including the impacts of human activities.
Betina Frinault is a marine biologist at the University of Oxford, where her focus includes community, population and conservation ecology of marine environments, science communication, citizen science and ocean advocacy.
Dr. Katherine Hutchinson is a physical oceanographer who researches western boundary currents, ocean-atmosphere interactions and the ocean's response to a changing climate. She is passionate about communicating science to society.
Dr. Sarah Fawcett is a senior lecturer in oceanography at the University of Cape Town. Her areas of research include biogeochemical oceanography, nitrogen isotopes and the nitrogen and carbon cycles and the ways that oceans impact climate.
