Chief Scientist
John Priscu
Professor, Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University
jpriscu@montana.edu
Executive Committee
Brad Rosenheim
Associate Professor, College of Marine Sciences, University of South Florida
brosenheim@usf.edu
Brent Christner
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida
xner@ufl.edu
Helen Fricker
Professor IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography UCSD
hafricker@ucsd.edu
James McManis
Manager, Engineering & Science Research Support Facility, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
jmcmanis1@unl.edu
Principal Investigators
John Dore
Associate Research Professor, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Science, Montana State University
jdore@montana.edu
Kathy Kasic
Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Film and Photography, Montana State
Universitykathykasic@gmail.com
Amy Leventer
Professor, Department of Geology, Colgate University
aleventer@colgate.edu
Berry Lyons
Professor, School Director, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Ohio State University
lyons.142@osu.edu
Eugen
e Domack
Professor of Geological Oceanography, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida
edomack@usf.edu
Mark Skidmore
Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University
skidmore@montana.edu
David Harwood
Professor and Stout Chair in Stratigraphy, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
dharwood1@unl.edu
Project Staff
Cindy Dean
Project Manager
cynthia.dean@montana.edu
Dennis Duling
Lead Driller, Senior Researcher, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
dulingde@yahoo.com
Bob Zook
ROV Operator, Chief Engineer, SCINI University of Nebraska – Lincoln
bobbyzook@gmail.com
Justin Burnett
ROV Operator, Mechanical Engineer, Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington
jburnett@apl.washington.edu
Post Doc
Wei Li
Post Doctoral Scientist, Department Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University
wei.li02@montana.edu
Matthew Siegfried
Post Doctoral Scientist, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
mrsiegfried@ucsd.edu
Graduate Students
August Steigmeyer
PhD Candidate, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University
august.steigmeyer@student.montana.edu
Peter Kibler
PhD Candidate, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida
pgkibler@ufl.edu
Billy Collins
MFA Candidate, Graduate Research Assistant, School of Film and Photography, Montana State University
bccollins21@gmail.com
Ryan Venturelli
PhD student, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida
raventurelli@usf.edu
Global Collaborators
Carlos Barbanti
Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Director of the Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes, University Ca’Foscari Venice
barbante@unive.it
Martyn Tranter
Professor, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
m.tranter@bristol.ac.uk
Ok-Sun Kim
PhD in Microbial Ecology, Senior Research Scientist Division of Polar Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute
oskim@kopri.re.kr