email on land: juniper.kim@uqam.ca

A native of western Canada, Kim Juniper received a BSc (Zoology) from the University of Alberta in 1976 and then travelled to New Zealand to complete a PhD in marine microbiology at the University of Canterbury (1982). He began working with submersibles during a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney, British Columbia. This was the period of the first discoveries of hydrothermal vents on the Juan de Fuca Ridge and Kim participated in these early cruises with Pisces IV. His past 13 years of hydrothermal vent research have touched on many topics, but all relate to the interaction of vent organisms with geochemical and mineralogical processes. Kim is an associate professor at the University of Quebec at Montreal, where he is a member of the GEOTOP research centre.