Kate Mackichan
Kate joined Tritonia Scientific in January 2024 to provide maternity cover for our Operations Manager, and to assist on various aquaculture and other projects. Previously she worked in aquaculture (salmon farming) for 12 years, starting out as a benthic surveyor in 2011 and progressing to compliance manager within the company’s environment team. She therefore brings […]
Chris Peck
Chris joined Tritonia in 2024 as scientific researcher specialising in side scan sonar and habitat mapping. Chris gained his BSc (Hons) in Marine Biology and oceanography at Bangor University where he then continued his studies gaining his MSc in Applied Marine Geoscience in 2016. He then went on to undertake and is currently finishing a […]
Chris Johnson
Chris joined Tritonia Scientific in 2021 and is one of the diving supervisors for the company’s southern branch in the South West of England. He obtained his HSE Pt IV qualification in the early 2000s while studying Marine Biology at Plymouth University. Chris has been diving for over 20 years, and been self-employed for approximately […]
Kate Stanton
Kate is a supervisor for Tritonia Scientific in their southern branch in the South West of England, having joined the team in 2021. She earned a BSc in Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences at the University of Washington in 2010 where she learned scientific diving methodology before undertaking further studies focusing on cuttlefish at the Université […]
Faith Gibbs
Faith is undertaking an undergraduate placement at the Marine Biological Association as a research assistant. She is currently studying at Plymouth University for a (BSc Hons) in Marine Biology and Coastal Ecology. She gained her HSE SCUBA certification as part of her degree and has since worked with the National Marine Aquarium, Ocean Conservation Trust […]
Damaris Landers
Damaris is a Data Scientist working on the Civtech project within the Tritonia Scientific team. She earned a BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering in 2019 and is currently undertaking a PhD in Mathematical Ecology with The University of Oxford and ZSL. Her PhD research focuses on the spatial and temporal succession of coral reefs using […]
Iona Paterson
Iona is undertaking a graduate placement with Tritonia Scientific having graduated with a MSc in Aquaculture, Environment and Society in 2022. Iona has recently completed a collaborative research project between Heriot-Watt University and Tritonia Scientific, where she evaluated the use of Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) to survey and monitor aquaculture impacts on hard seabed. She […]
Karl Roberts
Karl is a Post-Graduate Research Assistant at Tritonia Scientific. He graduated from Edinburgh Napier University with a BSc (Hons) in Marine and Freshwater Biology in 2019 and from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh) with a MSc in Climate Change: Managing the Marine Environment in 2020. Karl operates and maintains Tritonia’s multibeam echosounder system and leads the collection, analysis, and […]
Matthew Toberman
Matthew is a data scientist and developer at Tritonia Scientific who holds a BSc (Hons) in Physics (2007), an MSc in Physical Oceanography (2008), and a PhD focused on robotic observation of ocean turbulence and mixing (2015). He had a six-year tenure as a researcher at the Scottish Association for Marine Science before moving to […]
Pamela Schulz
Pamela is undertaking a graduate placement as a Postgraduate Research Assistant for Tritonia Scientific. She earned a BSc (Hons) in Marine Science with Arctic Studies through the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in 2021. During her studies, she gained field experience in the high Arctic, where she spent a semester conducting fieldwork and participated in […]
