Hello! My name is Emilia Topp-Johnson. I am a UNOLS MATE intern on the electrical team of the ALVIN HOV through Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and will be boarding the R/V Atlantis at the port in Golfito Costa Rica in a few days! This past spring, I graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in Astrophysics, and am entering Columbia University in the fall to undertake a degree in Electrical Engineering. I have previously worked as a Geophysical Research Assistant aboard the Atlantis’s sister vessel, the RV Thomas Thomson exploring the Gofar transform fault, and am excited to continue to explore the bottom of the ocean, especially with such a unique and incredible device! Much of my past year was spent overwintering on the Greenlandic Ice Sheet, so I am super excited to spend time doing science in the sun!
