Verena Tunnicliffe

Verena Tunnicliffe is a relatively young scientist who has had a remarkable scientific career as chief scientist on Canada's first (and several others) deep submersible cruise to study hydrothermal vents off the west coast. Her work centers on the integration of physical wave models and autecology to explain the life history of benthic communities. She has been responsible for the development of methodologies to find and study deep sea organisms and to integrate her work with geophysical data to explain the distribution and evolutionary patterns of hydrothermal vent faunae in the Pacific.