Dr Clare Woodward

Dr Clare Woodward

Clare is a GP in Auckland and a medical educator for the College of GPs. She loves sailing, tramping, skiing, ski  touring and adventures with her three children, so is very excited to be coming on the trip to this amazing part of the world.
Greer Gilmer

Greer Gilmer

Greer is a climate researcher and MBIE Science Whitinga Fellow at GNS Science in Ōtepoti/Dunedin. During this expedition she will be collecting peat cores to investigate past climate in the subantarctic. Greer completed her undergraduate and Masters at the University...
Ulla von Ammon

Ulla von Ammon

Ulla works in the marine biosecurity group at the Cawthron Institute in Nelson and will collect eDNA samples to investigate plankton biodiversity patterns and invasive species/pathogen distributions. Ulla studied marine biology at the University of Rostock in Germany...
Pluto Liu

Pluto Liu

Pluto (She/They) is a PhD student in marine science at the University of Otago. They are using genomic methods to study the connectivity of kelp populations around the Southern Ocean, and modelling if they will reach Antarctica in the warming future. Pluto had a...
Chris Moy

Chris Moy

Chris is an associate professor at Otago University. His research uses sediment cores to evaluate past changes in Southern Hemisphere climate, carbon cycling, and marine biogeochemical cycling. He identifies how key components of the global climate system have changed...