Director, Schmidt Marine Technology Partners
Mark is the director of Schmidt Marine. He began his career studying deep-ocean carbon cycling and harmful algal blooms at The College of William and Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science, after receiving a B.S. in biology from Wake Forest University and an M.S. in chemical oceanography from Florida State University. Later, he spent over a decade working as an ocean-focused writer. Mark’s articles and photos have appeared in Nature, Scientific American, Popular Science, The New York Times and numerous other publications. Mark has worked on over a dozen research vessels on expeditions around the world and is a fellow of the Explorers Club.
