Malcolm Clarke - NIWA

Voyage and co-project leader
Dr Malcolm Clark
Dr Malcolm Clark
Image supplied: NIWA - Taihoro Nukurangi

Malcolm began his research career in the 1980s as a fisheries biologist. He worked extensively on stock assessment of deepwater fish (in particular orange roughy), before broadening his research interests to more general deep-sea ecosystems. He studied seamounts for many years, and headed the Census of Marine Life on Seamounts, a major 6 year international research programme. Read Malcolm's full profile.

  • David Bowden: NIWA

  • Steve George: NIWA

  • Sadie Mills: Safety Officer (chemicals) - NIWA

  • Rob Stewart: NIWA

  • Crispin Middleton: Safety Officer (diving) - NIWA

  • Arne Pallentin: NIWA

  • Hamish McCormick: NIWA

Tom Trnski - Auckland Museum

Co-project leader
Tom Trnski
Dr Tom Trnski
Auckland War Memorial Museum – Tāmaki Paenga Hira.

Tom head Auckland Museum's Natural Sciences, whose main activities are collection management, collection development, research, and exhibitions and public programmes relating to our collecting areas of botany, entomology, geology, land vertebrates, marine biology and palaeontology. Since moving to New Zealand in 2007, he's focused on the documentation and biogeographic affinities of the regional fish fauna. He's led recent expeditions to document the biodiversity of remote islands in New Zealand (Three Kings and the Kermadec islands) and the regional Pacific region (southern French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Niue and Tonga). Read Tom's full profile.

  • Severine Hannam: Auckland Museum

  • Alison Sampey: Auckland Museum

  • Keren Spong: Auckland Museum

  • Clinton Duffy: Department of Conservation

  • Libby Liggins: Massey University

  • Dave Aguirre: Massey University

  • Emma Betty: Massey University

  • Andrew Stewart: NMNZ Te Papa

  • Carl Struthers: MNZ Te Papa

  • Jeremy Barker: MNZ Te Papa

Rochelle Constantine - University of Auckland

Co-project leader
Rochelle Constantine
Dr Rochelle Constantine
Image: © NZ IceFest

Rochelle is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland and runs the Marine Mammal Ecology Group. She uses an inter-disciplinary approach to answering questions about cetacean ecology and collaborates widely to try and resolve some of the conservation issues facing cetaceans from the tropics to Antarctica. As a consequence of the breadth of her research she is a member of several international scientific panels overseeing cetacean research and conservation programmes. Read Rochelle's full profile.

  • Lucy van Oosterom: University of Auckland

  • Leena Riekkola: University of Auckland

  • Mary Sewell: University of Auckland

  • Name: University of Auckland

  • Amelia Connell: Pew Research Center