People

Karen Osborn – PI

Karen became hooked on the midwater as a summer intern at MBARI and has continued following that interest ever since. She studied munnopsid isopods as a graduate student at UC Berkeley and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute then went on to study cirratuliform worms at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. In late 2011 she took a research position at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History where she has further diversified her study organisms to include first acorn worms, then hyperiid amphipods and tomopterid polychaetes.

Chan Lin – postdoc

Chan Lin is a postdoc working on the neuroanatomy of hyperiid amphipods. He uses histological staining, immunolabeling, and advanced light and confocal microscopy to study the neural architecture of the visual brain centers.

Brett Gonzalez – postdoc

Paula Pappalardo – research collaborator

Paula is working on the potential of the StreamCode zooplankton database to improve the outcome of metabarcoding methods to estimate zooplankton biodiversity. She enjoys collaborative, multi-disciplinary research related to describing spatial patterns of species diversity, and looking at how and by what mechanisms species’ attributes can explain species boundaries, species geographic ranges, and patterns of species richness. 

Vanessa Stenvers – masters student, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Josh Havassy – volunteer

Sarit Truskey – graduate student

Sarit is a graduate of St. Mary's College of Maryland (B.A. Biology - 2015) and interested in the ecology, evolution, and biogeography of marine invertebrates. As a research intern with the Osborn Lab, Sarit is using genetic sequence data to explore spatial connectivity and diversity in an assorted lineup of holopelagic invertebrates, including Tomopteris polycheates. She will be with us through summer 2018.

Anna Rocket – volunteer

Anna has volunteered her illustration skills to the Osborn lab for several years. She digitizes scale worm illustrations.

Kristina Ogilvie – volunteer

Kristina has volunteered her graphic design skills to the IZ department since 2012. She processes photos of specimens using Adobe's Creative Suite.

Bill Van Holle – volunteer

Bill is an amateur photographer who photographs and digitizes specimens of marine organisms under the direction of Dr. Osborn. He uses the lab’s Cannon macro set up for high resolution images of specimens in standard orientations, and combines them into digital files for the museum's catalogue.