Photo of Erin Easton wearing bright blue lab gloves and holding up a sample to an overhead light, deep in thought. She is standing in front of a large screen with the text out of focus mentioning "ROV dive" and "CTD" in the text.

Split photo of Erin Easton smiling, wearing bright blue lab gloves and depositing a biological specimen into a small Nalgene tube in the Main Lab aboard RV Falkor.

Erin Easton, Ph.D., is Director of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Marine Ecosystems Institute, an adjunct researcher at ESMOI Universidad Católica del Norte (and former #DSBSoc officer). Her research focuses on the exploration of understudied oceanic regions and their #BenthicHabitats.