Beth Orcutt

Beth N. Orcutt is an American oceanographer whose research focuses on the microbial life of the ocean floor. As of 2012, she is a senior research scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. In 2022, she became the Vice President for Research at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. She also serves as a senior scientist at the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, a National Science Foundation-funded Science and Technology Center based at the University of Southern California. She is a member of the Deep Carbon Observatory's Deep Life Community and has worked with the International Scientific Ocean Drilling Program. Orcutt has made fundamental contributions to the study of life below the seafloor, particularly in oceanic crust. Provided by Wikipedia