An alumni of OSU’s BioResource Research program, Kyle Neumann is an NSF graduate research fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in the Interdepartmental Graduate Program for Marine Science at the University of California Santa Barbara. After completing his degree at OSU, Kyle worked as a Marine Systems Specialist at the Sexton Corporation (Salem, OR), where he designed and built custom
underwater scientific and camera equipment. Kyle has taken these skills to sea as an engineer on research cruises in the Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and the NE Pacific, most recently aboard the E/V Nautilus as a lead video engineer. In all of his undertakings Kyle strives to include research co-production, stakeholder engagement, and youth education wherever possible.