2023
February 2023: Rhode Island College Biology Department Seminar // Providence, RI
March 16-18, 2023: Signatures of Life in the Universe Scialogs Meeting // Tucson, AZ
March 27-31, 2023: Keck Institute for Space Studies “Targeting Microhabitats for Life Detection” workshop #2 co-convener // Pasadena, CA
May 2023: Crustal Ocean Biosphere Research Accelerator Seminar Series // Online
2022
March 7-11, 2022: United Nations Intergovernmental Conference on marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, Part 4 // New York CIty, NY
March 21-25, 2022: International Seabed Authority Council Meeting // Kingston, Jamaica
March 28-30, 2022: National Ocean Exploration Forum // Austin, Texas
May 18-20, 2022: Tracing Monsoon, Ocean Currents, and Diagenetic Carbon Redistribution workshop // Vienna, Austria
May 24-26, 2022: Department of Energy Environmental Systems Science Meeting // Online
June 9-12, 2022: Signatures of Life in the Universe Scialogs Meeting // Tucson, AZ
July 2-8, 2022: Fagradalsfjall Microbial Observatory Expedition // Reykjanes, Iceland
July 22-24, 2022: Ad Astra Academy Puerto Rico // San Juan, PR
July 27 - August 18, 2022: Alvin Science Verification Cruise // Puerto Rico Trench, Mid-Cayman Spreading Center
August 15-26, 2022: United Nations Intergovernmental Conference on marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, Part 5 // New York CIty, NY
September 19-23, 2022: Keck Institute for Space Studies “Targeting Microhabitats for Life Detection” workshop #1 co-convener // Pasadena, CA
November 8-10, 2022: NSF Ideas Lab; Emerging Technologies to Advance Underwater Sciences // Airlie, VA
November 15, 2022: Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry Seminar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution // Woods Hole, MA
November 16, 2022: Geology Seminar, California State University, Fullerton // Online
2021
May - June, 2021: DeepGreen Benthic Campaign Environmental Assessment // Clarion Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean
June 10-11, 2021: Signatures of Life in the Universe Scialogs Meeting // Online
September 12-17, 2021: Deep Sea Biology Symposium, Session Convener // Online
2020
January 11-19, 2020: Margherita Peak mountaineering expedition // Rwenzori National Park, Uganda
February 22 - March 12, 2020: Atlantis leg AT 42-24 research cruise // Gulf of Mexico
November 24, 2020: Harvard Club of New York City, Invited Speaker // Online / New York City, NY
December 10, 2020: Harvard Microbial Sciences Initiative, Invited Speaker // Online
2019
January 19, 2019: Ad Astra Academy Youth Science Initiative // Cambridge, MA
February 13, 2019: Biology Department Seminar, Boston University // Boston, MA
February 28, 2019: Museum of Science, High School Science Series Keynote Speaker // Boston, MA
March 17, 2019: The Explorers Club Annual Dinner, Invited Presenter // New York City, NY
March 25-April 5, 2019: United Nations Intergovernmental Conference on marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, Part 2 // New York CIty, NY
April 3, 2019: SciCafe Presenter, American Museum of Natural History // New York City, NY
June 24-29, 2019: Astrobiology Science Conference, “Lessons from Earth Analogs to Inform the Search for Life in the Universe” session convener // Seattle, WA
August 25-27, 2019: United Nations Intergovernmental Conference on marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, Part 3 // New York CIty, NY
September 9-13, 2019: International FISH Course // Vienna, Austria
November 2-15, 2019: Ad Astra Academy Nigeria, Part 1 // Lagos & Port Harcourt, Nigeria
2018
January 11, 2018: Center for Biofilm Engineering Seminar at Montana State University // Bozeman, MT
January 12, 2018: Moore Foundation Marine Microbiology Initiative, Project Kick-Off Meeting // Bozeman, MT
January 26, 2018: SUNY-Buffalo Biological Sciences Symposium, Keynote Speaker // Buffalo, NY
February 11-16, 2018: Ocean Sciences Meeting, "Methane from the Subsurface through the Bio-, Hydro-, and Atmosphere" Session Co-Convener // Portland, OR
February 26-27, 2018: Here be Dragons, MIT Media Lab Open Ocean Initiative, Invited Speaker // Cambridge, MA
March 1, 2018: Departments of Biology & Oceanography Joint Seminar, Dalhousie University // Halifax, Canada
April 2, 2018: MicroSeminar, the Web-Based Microbiology Seminar Series, Presenter // Online
August 13, 2018: Goldschmidt Conference, Oral Presentation // Boston, MA
April 5, 2018: Science Diplomacy for Deep Ocean Stewardship // Online, Southampton, UK
April 6, 2018: National Geographic Day, Keynote Speaker // Denver, CO
April 15-18, 2018: New Opportunities to Study Origins of the Eukaryotic Cell // Janelia Research Campus, VA
April 18-19, 2018: Deep Sea Mining Impacts on Microbial Ecosystem Services Workshop // Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, ME
May 6-10, 2018: Ad Astra Academy / Osel Foundation Mars Academy Part 2 // Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
May 21-23, 2018: Ocean Worlds Meeting // Houston, TX
June 13-16, 2018: National Geographic Explorers Festival // Washington, D.C.
July, 2018: Lava Lakes of Ambrym Island Expedition // Vanuatu
August 16, 2018: TEDx @TripAdvisor // Invited Speaker
September 2, 2018: The Rut 50K Mountain Trail Run // Big Sky, MT
September 4-17, 2018: United Nations Intergovernmental Conference on marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, Part 1 // New York CIty, NY
October 5-21, 2018: Seeps and Vents of Southern California Expedition // Schmidt Ocean Institute, California Coast
November 8-10, 2018: National Ocean Exploration Forum “All Hands on Deck” // Cambridge, MA
November 13, 2018: National Geographic Explorer Classroom // Online
2017
February 6-7, 2017: Critical Measurements in Martian Geobiology with Mars-2020, Workshop Co-organizer // Pasadena, CA
February 8-10, 2017: 3rd Mars 2020 Landing Site Workshop // Pasadena, CA
February 15-16, 2017: ARPA-E REMOTE team annual meeting // Houston, TX
March 2-4, 2017: Ad Astra Academy retreat and workshop // Winter Park, CO
June 2-4, 2017: 70 Years of the Marshall Plan // Harvard University
June 5-9, 2017: [United Nations' Ocean Conference] // New York City, NY
June 15-18, 2017: National Geographic's Explorers Festival // Washington, D.C.
August 14-16, 2017: Ad Astra Academy Short Course // Oakland, CA
September 24, 2017: Rutgers University Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology Department Seminar // New Brunswick, NJ
November 3, 2017: [MIT Chemical Oceanography, Geology, Geochemistry, and Geobiology Seminar] // Cambridge, MA
November 9, 2017: Falling Walls Conference // Berlin, Germany
November 14, 2017: National Geographic Explorer Classroom, [Space Week] // Online
December 18-22, 2017: Ad Astra Academy / Osel Foundation Mars Academy Part 1 // Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
2016
January 20-21: ARPA-E REMOTE team annual meeting // La Jolla, CA
April 29, 2016: Northeast Geobiology Symposium // Cambridge, MA
June 13-17, 2016: National Geographic's Explorers Week // Washington, D.C.
June 16-20, 2016: American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting // Boston, MA
June 23 - July 3, 2016: E/V Nautilus Central California Expedition, Participating Scientist // San Francisco >> Santa Barbara
July 26 - August 8: R/V Atlantis Deep Submergence Science Leadership Cruise // Woods Hole, MA
August 21-24, 2016: International Symposium on Microbial Ecology // Montreal, Canada
August 25-26, 2016: 2nd Annual Ocean Worlds Meeting // Woods Hole, MA
September 16-20, 2016: Virus Hunters Bat Cave Reporting Trip // Democratic Republic of the Congo
September 21-24, 2016: Volcanoes of Virunga, Lake Kivu Expedition // Democratic Republic of the Congo
October 31, 2016: Georgia Tech School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department Seminar // Atlanta, GA
November 3, 2016: NASA Education / National Geographic's Mars Student Meet-up, Invited Speaker // Washington, DC
November 9-12, 2016: National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference: Discovering the Deep Blue Sea // Irvine, CA
November 21, 2016: National Geographic Explorer Classroom, Guest Presenter // Online