Principle Investigator

Stacy is a Benthic Ecologist; she is interested in seafloor creatures and the community interactions between them.  Working in the marine environment, and especially in deep and polar seas, access has always been a limitation that she struggles with.  The remotely operated vehicle SCINI overcomes this and allows easy access to seas that are ice covered and habitats that are deep.  This season, our scientific goal is to locate and survey unique benthic communities at greater than diving depths – the iceberg-scarred seafloor in the Bay of Sails, the unknown community beneath the Ross Ice Shelf at Heald Island, and the legendary forests of giant volcano sponges near Cape Armitage.

When she’s not in Antarctica, Stacy spends as much of her time as possible out of doors with her two dogs, Jesse and Bruno.