
Rika Anderson (Leg 3)
Rika Anderson is a marine microbiologist, geobiologist, and astrobiologist who studies how microbes and their viruses adapt and change over time in deep-sea hydrothermal vents. She got her PhD at the University of Washington in the School of Oceanography, and now she teaches at Carleton College. On the VISIONS’23 cruise, she and her team will be collecting samples from hydrothermal vents and helping to recover the PPS instrument, which enables long-term monitoring of the microbial communities that live in hydrothermal vents.

Emily Albines (Leg 1)
My name is Emily Albines. I am a rising

Jood Almokharrak (Leg 2)
Hello! My name is Jood Almokharrak, and I am

Roy An (Leg 2)
Hello, my name is Roy An, an upcoming Senior

Rika Anderson (Leg 3)
Rika Anderson is a marine microbiologist, geobiologist, and astrobiologist

Kyle Brooks (Leg 3)
My name is Kyle Brooks (they/them), I am a

Elena Calderon (Leg 2)
Hello! I just finished my first year of undergrad

Atticus Carter (Leg 1)
I’m Atticus Carter, a senior student in Oceanography at the University

José Cornejo (Leg 2)
Hi!! I am José Cornejo, a Peruvian rising senior

Leo Couchon (Leg 2)
HelIo I’m Leo! (they/them) I am a community college

Victoria deJong (Leg 3)
A late science bloomer, Victoria’s early work focused on

Erik Duarte (Leg 2)
Hello! My name is Erik Duarte and I am

Finnegan Hanley (Leg 1)
My name is Finnegan Hanley and I am entering

Morrigan Havely (Leg 3)
Morrigan is a first-year UW undergraduate, majoring in marine

Anna Hildebrand (Leg 2)
Anna Hildebrand is a PhD student in the Lapham

Nikola Jensen (Leg 1)
Hello! My name is Nikola Jensen (he/they) and I

Makayla Joseph (Leg 1)
My name is Makayla and I am a senior

Laura Lapham (Leg 2)
The goal of my research group (at the Chesapeake

Paige McKay (Leg 3)
Hi! My name is Paige McKay and I am

Erik Perkins (Leg 1)
Hi! My name is Erik and I am a

Will Puzella (Leg 3)
I’m a rising senior computer science major with a

Catherine Rasgaitis (Leg 2)
Catherine Rasgaitis is a Computer Science and Neural Engineering student at

Nichole Sams (Leg 1)
My name is Nichole Sams and I am a

John Teal, Jr. (Leg 3)
My name is John R Teal Jr., and I

Naomi Wharton (Leg 2)
I am a graduate student in the physical oceanography

Juliet Wiener (Leg 3)
Hello, my name is Juliet Wiener, and I’m thrilled

Zariel Zamudio (Leg 2)
Zariel Zamudio is a first generation student and current