Vicki Ferrini has a Ph.D. in Coastal Oceanography (2004) and a Masters Degree in Marine Environmental Science (1998), both from Stony Brook University. Over the past 20+ years she has worked in environments from shallow water coastal areas to the deep sea using ships, boats, submersibles and towed platforms to map the seafloor at a variety of resolutions. Vicki is also heavily involved in the fields of geoinformatics and data management. She is a Research Scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory where she spends much of her time working on projects focused on making high-quality marine geoscience research data publicly accessible.
