2026 MBARI Summer Intern Symposium Presentations will be 15 minutes each and each presentation will start on time. 0830-0915 breakfast for interns 0915-0930 Introduction 0930-0945Isabelle SantiagoLighting up the Ocean: Cloning, expression, and characterization of comb jelly photoproteins0945-1000Eli MallyContrasting coastal polynya and open ocean phytoplankton productivity with SOCCOM BGC-Argo Float data: A Ross Sea case study1000-1015Daniel SolanoVARS-ML AutoLabel: A VARS-Integrated Vector Embedding Classification Pipeline with Hierarchical Taxonomic Evaluation1015-1030Alessandro PuglisiGULP3R: Gaussian Underwater spLatting with semantic Perception for 3D Reconstruction.Creating Labeled 3D Maps from Camera Images.1030-1045 BREAK 1045-1100Rudra GaikwadFrom Prototype to Platform: Making Better Engineering Decisions Through Testing1100-1115Cate O’BryonConnecting the Surface to the Deep: Tracking Sinking Particle Fluxes Through a Machine Learning Approach in the California Current1115-1130Landon NoyesCharacterization of Lithium Cells for Energy Harvesting Applications1130-1300LUNCH 1300-1315Sarah WilliamsNothing to See Here: Background Data and False Positives in UAV Imagery Object Detection1315-1330Ariel RaizmanUnsupervised Machine Learning to Track Humpback Whale Song Structure in the North Pacific1330-1345Izzy Farrar Deep-sea organic falls in the Oxygen Minimum Zone: Patterns of invertebrate diversity1345-1415BREAK 1415-1430Meg SiwakPhysical Controls on Phytoplankton Distribution in the Galápagos Archipelago1430-1445Daniel SamboldFathomNet Update: Monolith to Modular1445-1500Daira MelendezBeyond Metabarcoding: Exploring Nuclear Marker Recovery from Environmental DNA Using Long-Read Sequencing Date August 12, 2026 Time 9 AM to 3 PM PDT Location MBARI7700 Sandholdt RoadMoss Landing, CA 95039 zoom webinar registration This symposium will be offered in a hybrid format so those that wish to attend online can register at this zoom link.