The Marine Technology Society has named MBARI Outgoing President and CEO/Senior Scientist Chris Scholin the 2026 MTS Fellow. Presented at the society’s annual meeting today, this award recognizes his leadership in advancing technology for observing ecosystem processes in a dynamic ocean.

Postdoctoral researchers make significant contributions to scientific discovery and technology innovation. MBARI’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program supports early-career scientists and engineers who are developing innovative solutions to challenges in ocean science, technology, and conservation.

This week, MBARI President and CEO Antje Boetius and Postdoctoral Fellow Guillaume Liniger, one of the inaugural Neptune Fellows, participated in the Polar Oceans Challenge, a New York Climate Week event hosted by Mission Neptune and the Explorers Club to raise awareness about the urgent need for sustained research in polar regions.

Last week, researchers from MBARI and the Synchro program participated in the Deep Ocean Collective Solution Accelerator workshop, hosted by the DOOS initiative, to advance solutions for the most pressing research problems in deep-sea science and conservation.

Earlier this month, engineers from MBARI’s CoMPAS Lab and LRAUV Team participated in the 2026 IEEE OES AUV Symposium (AUV2026), sharing new developments from their work in autonomous robotics with peers in the ocean engineering community.

Last month, MBARI researchers participated in an expedition to deploy advanced imaging systems to study marine snow and ocean carbon transport in the Gulf of Guinea. Part of the Ocean Margins Initiative, this fieldwork is helping to reveal the oceanographic processes in a productive and economically important ecosystem.