One way in which I strive to communicate my scientific research is to creatively share my experiences through film photography and storytelling:
In January 2024, I collaborated with the Arctic Research Foundation to share a story about my time in Svalbard, Norway. Here I participated in an arctic geology field course at the University Centre of Svalbard (UNIS). This course covered the marine cryosphere and its Cenozoic history. We traveled all over Spitzbergen via snowmobiles and collected sea ice cores in the hopes of finding entrained sediment.
Follow along for the rest of my story:
AGU's science news magazine: EOS
Expedition 403: Sailing the Last Expedition of the JOIDES Resolution
Early-career geoscientists share melancholy memories about hard science and intangible networks of collaboration.
After sailing aboard the JR, I submitted another creative story to the Arctic Research Foundation.
Sharing this experience to people from my home town of Rochester, Indiana (pop. 6,000) and in a first person narrative, is really satisfying. It actually provokes inquiry, where otherwise there would be little interest.
