My name is Gustavo Santos, and I am a pharmacist with a PhD in Science from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo.

I am a Data Science PhD candidate in the Department of Information Systems (IS) at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and a graduate researcher at NSF HDR Institute for Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Regions (iHARP).

I was born and raised in India; my family moved to the USA when I was about 10 years old. For most of my life, I have been interested in the sciences, though the specific topics have shifted between Physics, Astrophysics and now oceanography.

I'm Chase Puentes (she/her), a PhD student in geography at the University of Washington. I was born and raised on the ancestral homelands of the Kumeyaay people in what's known as San Diego, California, where I developed a great love of coastal waters and a curiosity about people's connections to them.

My name is Abby! I am from Oregon, and I am currently a student in my fourth year studying Oceanography at Oregon State University.

I am from Bangalore, Karnataka, India and currently reside in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. My work involves designing, building, and deploying radar systems to remotely sense the polar regions.

My name is Myrah, and I'm from Quebec, Canada. I grew up in the Laurentian hills surrounded by temperate forests and lakes. This made me curious about other climates as I studied environmental science, and I eventually began studying marine ecology at Memorial University.

I grew up in the Inland Empire which is in Southern California. My hometown and my high school was predominantly made up of people of color, and I believe this has shaped the lens by which I view the world.

My name is Millie, I am from the UK, and I am currently a Masters by Research Student in the Department of Geography at Durham University. My work is on machine learning, remote sensing, and the shrubification of the sub-arctic tundra in Alaska…

My name is Tom and I am a half Filipino, half Scotch-Irish person from Arizona who has worked 8 seasons in Antarctica, 6 seasons in Alaska, and 3 seasons in Greenland.

I grew up in Ogidi, a small town about 5 miles from the banks of the Niger River in Anambra State, Nigeria. I study bryophytes, a group of usually small plants that grow attached to different substrates like tree barks and walls.

I'm Dr. Siddharth Shankar, currently a postdoctoral researcher at Center for Remote Sensing and Integrated Systems (CReSIS), University of Kansas.

I’m an undergraduate student based in Hawai’i studying marine biology. I’m Hispanic Texan, born in Texas and raised in both Mexico and Texas.

My name is Martina, I was born in Ushuaia (Argentina), a city known as "the end of the world" for being the southernmost city in the world. Currently, my thesis focuses on phytoplankton (microalgae) ecology in coastal areas of the western Antarctic Peninsula.

My name is Valeria Briones, I am a research assistant for Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

I'm originally from India, but currently I live in Germany for my master's degree program. I study Integrated Climate System Sciences at University of Hamburg, Germany.

I'm Mirali Shukla and I am an interdisciplinary researcher, adventure enthusiast, and storyteller working in the biocultural conservation field.

My name is Kniya Dunan; I am from Queens, New York. I am a first-generation Caribbean American. I am currently a junior majoring in Geology at Binghamton University.

My name is Mikayla Pascual, and I’m a first year PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin affiliated with the Jackson School of Geosciences and Institute for Geophysics. I study the dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet and marine-terminating outlet glaciers.

My name is Antonia. I am from Coyhaique, a small city in the Chilean Patagonia and currently, I am doing my PhD with NIWA (National Institute of Water & Atmospheric) and the University of Otago in New Zealand studying phytoplankton ecology in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.