This OER was collaboratively authored by three former Onboard Outreach Officers that sailed on JOIDES Resolution between 2022-2024. Together, the team has experience with teaching at two-year and four-year institutions as well as informal and adult education.

Laura Guertin

Laura is a Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences at Penn State Brandywine (Media, PA), which serves as a two-year feeder campus in The Pennsylvania State University System. She is trained in marine geology & geophysics from the University of Miami – Rosenstiel School and currently has a pedagogical focus to her research agenda. Laura is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and American Association for the Advancement of Science. She sailed as an Onboard Outreach Officer for Expedition 390 in 2022 and continues her outreach today with the creation of 19 quilts for science storytelling about scientific ocean drilling and her expedition (explore the quilts at Stories from the South Atlantic Ocean). To learn more about Laura, visit her professional ePortfolio and Journeys of Dr. G websites.

Elizabeth Doyle

Elizabeth Doyle teaches geology at Northern Virginia Community College and Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. She earned her master’s degree in geology from the University of Minnesota, where she focused on metamorphic petrology. In 2023, she sailed as an Onboard Outreach Officer for Expedition 400 off the coast of northwest Greenland. Prior to the expedition, she conducted science outreach in Greenland.  In addition to teaching introductory physical and historical geology courses, she leads geology field trips to historic sites in the Washington D.C. region, exploring how geology guides human history.

Tessa Peixoto

Tessa Peixoto academically is a trained marine scientist from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Her experiences have led her to fields in education as a museum educator at the Harvard Museum of Natural history to seasonal aides for California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries. Her passions lie within social justice, science, and education, which especially showed up when she worked as an Adult Education Science Instructor for adults getting their high school diploma. At any given point, you could catch her in the office building wind turbines and bringing in her personal collection of fossils to share with her students. Tessa sailed as the onboard outreach officer for Expedition 393 in 2022, and Expedition 402 in 2024 where she combined the world of Art and Science to create a more accessible route for the public to engage with the research onboard. Tessa continues her science communication endeavors by creating content to post on her instagram page @tessafishoto.