Deborah Kelley

Deborah Kelley is a Professor in the UW School of Oceanography. She was involved in the discovery of the Lost City Field in 2000 when she, Jeff Karson and pilot Pat Hickey dove on Lost City in Alvin for the first time. Kelley named the field and was Chief Scientist on the follow-on 2003 (www.lostcity.washington.edu/index_old.html) interdisciplinary investigation of this site using Alvin and the autonomous benthic explorer "ABE". She was also the land-based Chief Scientist during the 2005 Ocean Exploration program (oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05lostcity/), the first field effort to fully use telepresence to run a cruise. Her work focuses on the geologic evolution of this field and the linkages among geological, chemical and biological processes that have operated within the serpentinite-hosted system over the last 100,000 years. She continues to help lead the Lost City science program and she is anxious to find new Lost City's.