Louise Anderson

Louise Anderson is a Research Associate at the University of Leicester (UK) and is one of the Logging Staff Scientists who sail on drilling expeditions on both the JOIDES Resolution and on Mission Specific Platforms MSPs) as part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP).

Louise has a BSc (hons) in Geological Sciences from the University of Leeds (1998) and a PhD: ‘Hydrothermal Vent Fauna and Fossilization’ from Royal Holloway, University of London (2002). She has spent time working in the oil industry as a Data Management Consultant, but realized that working in an academic environment was more her scene.

She returned to Academia in 2005 through a Post-Doctoral position based in Paris (France) and started her IODP-related post in May of 2007. Louise has research interests in the examination of life in extreme environments, particularly deep-sea hydrothermal vents, with emphasis on fossilisation processes and the transfer of energy from vent fluids to symbiotic fauna over space and time.  More recently her interests have focused on the examination and use of Formation MicroScanner (FMS) logging data in detailed core-log integration studies, working specifically with data collected during IODP expeditions 304/305 (Atlantis Massif) and expeditions 320 and 321 (Equatorial Pacific).

Louise is currently sailing as one of the Logging Staff Scientists on Expedition 321 to the Equatorial Pacific and will be the Petrophysics Staff Scientist on Expedition 325 to the Great Barrier Reef to study environmental changes later this year.