Featured Scientists

Join Amanda as she shares the magnificent world of sponges and how they go to battle with the climate crisis.

Everyone thinks about the carbon footprint of their favorite burrito, right? Maybe not—BUT!… Dr. Eugene Cordero, a self-proclaimed “burrito connoisseur,” certainly does.

“I think people should know about sea anemones. Some people don’t recognize that anemones are living things.”

Working to measure and counterattack the impacts of ocean acidification on shellfish.

“Most of my research investigates marine biogeographic patterns and ecological processes, how human influences are reshaping them, and how well their dynamics can be predicted with models.”

Dr. Jessica Ware is an Associate Curator in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology and Associate Curator and Principal Investigator, Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History.

“I love the diversity, the beauty and adaptations of plankton,” says Christian Sardet. And, he’s on a mission to share this passion with everyone through art, film and photography.

How spending summers fishing with her dad on a small remote island off the coast of Maine led Melissa to a life of ocean conservation and the protection of manta and devil rays (genus Mobula).

It was from taking field courses studying scorpions in Baja, a love of marine biology and taking up scuba diving that prompted the extraordinary life of Rebecca Shaw.

Louise Allcock acquired the name Dr. Octopus because she studies octopuses. Louise is also known as, Deep Sea Diva. (She loves the name ‘diva’ as it implies someone who owns their passion). As the two nicknames indicate, Louise wears two hats: cephalopod evolution and ecology, and the deep sea.