ANDY REES (PhD). Biogeochemist. Leader of the UK Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) project (2007-present) and senior researcher at PML, where he coordinates all the PML impact activities related to the promotion of “Cleaner Seas for Nature and Society”. He has participated in, and led research projects and oceanographic expeditions on a global scale including to Arctic and Antarctic regions. His research is focused on the biogeochemical cycling in the marine environment, and on the impact of environmental change on the biological and chemical processes which control the ocean and atmospheric exchange of greenhouse gases. More info.

STEVE GROOM (PhD). Head of Science at PML, leading the Earth Observation science and applications area, and Director of the NERC Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service (NEODAAS) in Plymouth (UK). His research is focused on the application of remote sensing to observe and understand marine and coastal processes, including near-real time and operational Earth observation, biological processes in the eastern Mediterranean, coccolithophore blooms, harmful algal blooms, airborne remote sensing, web-based visualisation and integration of data. More info.

AFONSO FERREIRA (PhD student). Marine biologist at MARE/ARNET. His research is focused on exploring time-series data of environmental parameters from satellite remote sensing for disclosing links between climate-driven variability and marine phytoplankton offshore Iberia and around the Northern Antarctic Peninsula. His participation on expeditions AMT28 and OPERANTAR37-38 was crucial for collecting atmospheric dust samples across the Atlantic Ocean, as well as coccolithophore samples from the Southern Ocean. More info.

ANDREIA TRACANA (MSc). Marine biologist and Manager of the Laboratory of Phytoplankton at MARE/ARNET, including the analysis of pigments using a High Performance Liquid Chromatography. Her participation on AMT28 and AMT29 was crucial for the collection of all the coccolithophore and atmospheric dust samples available for CHASE, as well as for measuring the pH across the entire Atlantic Ocean. More info.

ALESSIA FININI (MSc student). Erasmus+ Trainee and MSc in Marine Sciences at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) in collaboration with MARE/ARNET and IDL (ongoing).  In the course of her ERAMUS+ traineeship and MSc research, she is undertaking the taxonomic and ecological study of coccolithophores living across the South Atlantic Ocean (30-50ºS), based on material collected during AMT28. Her project is embedded in, and benefits from projects CHASE and PORTWIMS (concluded) lead by MARE/ARNET.

Margarida Ferreira (MSc student). MSc in Marine Sciences at FCUL, in collaboration with MARE/ARNET, IDL and IPMA (ongoing). Her MSc research is focused on the taxonomic and paleoecological study of coccolith species from sediments collected along a coast-to-ocean transect offshore SW Portugal. The study is embedded in, and benefits from projects CHASE and SINES (Climate Change Impact on Ocean Fronts Ecosystems: the case of the Iberian Upwelling System) led by MARE/ARNET and IPMA, respectively.

Catarina Pinho (MSc student). MSc in Marine Sciences at FCUL, in collaboration with MARE/ARNET, IDL and IPMA (ongoing). Her MSc research is focused on the taxonomic and ecological study of coccolithophore communities and phytoplankton pigments collected along a coast-to-ocean transect offshore SW Portugal. The study is embedded in, and benefits from projects CHASE and SINES (Climate Change Impact on Ocean Fronts Ecosystems: the case of the Iberian Upwelling System) led by MARE/ARNET and IPMA, respectively.