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Thomas is an oceanographer and the founder of Icy Seas Co-Laboratory. His research examines how marine ecosystems interact with their physical environment, with particular interests in carbon cycling, export production, ecosystem modeling, and machine learning.

He founded Icy Seas to connect rigorous research with open-source tools, transparent data systems, and practical collaboration. Pelagia grew from that approach and from his direct experience operating DPI-3, managing high-volume ISIIS-DPI imagery at sea, and building workflows that preserve the path from source observation to scientific result.

Hannah works across the operational and scientific sides of pelagic imaging. Her experience includes supporting DPI-3 operations, processing imagery from its ISIIS-DPI plankton cameras, developing machine-learning classification workflows, and reviewing image-derived observations.

Her research on gelatinous zooplankton in the Northern Gulf of Alaska brings an essential scientific perspective to Pelagia. That combination of field experience, data processing, and organism-level interpretation helps ensure the software supports both the realities of acquisition and the judgment required to create defensible ecological records.

Charles founded Bellamare, LLC, a manufacturer of scientific marine instrumentation and subsea technology best known for the ISIIS-DPI family of plankton cameras used in oceanographic research worldwide. Its product line spans high-throughput imaging systems as well as telemetry, control, and logging solutions through the SIDEKICK Instrument Hub series.

Bellamare has long supported the oceanographic community with instrumentation built for demanding field conditions. The company has delivered numerous towed imaging vehicles, including DPI-3, as well as autonomous and moored deployment platforms.

Beyond hardware, Bellamare finances Pelagia’s ongoing development. That investment reflects a commitment to accelerating the path from data collection to scientific insight and helping make advanced imaging technology useful to more research teams in service of better science.

Cedric invented the ISIIS-DPI technology and has spent more than two decades developing and deploying marine instrumentation. He has supported more than 70 scientific missions, bringing together experience in marine biology, physical oceanography, imaging, and subsea engineering.

His work helped establish high-volume shadowgraph imaging as a practical method for observing plankton in place and resolving fine biological structure. That combination of invention, repeated field deployment, and scientific collaboration informs Pelagia’s emphasis on instrument-aware processing and workflows that remain useful under real operating conditions.

Adam is an associate professor at the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography and leads the ZERO-C Lab. His research examines the physical, biological, and behavioral processes that shape zooplankton distributions and their interactions across ocean environments.

His group uses in situ imaging and other high-resolution sampling technologies to connect individual organisms with fine-scale ocean structure. Adam’s experience applying shadowgraph imaging across continental shelf seas, laboratory studies, and mesocosm experiments helps Pelagia connect high-throughput processing with ecological interpretation, validation, and expert scientific review.