Community Ecology

The Deep-Sea Community Ecology Team, lead by Principal Investigator Lauren Mullineax, studies the relationship between organisms of deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities and their hostile, extreme environment. 

Explore Lauren’s Benthic Ecology Lab.

Dr. Lauren Mullineaux

Senior Scientist, Biological Oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Faculty member of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography

Dr. Stephan Hourdez

Worm Ecologist, Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France

Michael Meneses

PhD Student, MIT-WHOI Joint Program

Ayinde Best

Undergraduate Student, Wheaton College Massachusetts

Dr. Nadine LeBris

Deep-Sea Ecologist, Sorbonne Université

Susan Mills

Researcher, Mullineaux Lab

Dr. Lauren Dyckman

MIT-WHOI Joint Program