Here are some of the outreach events I have participated in over the past few years. Being a scientist at Lamont has given me the opportunity to reach many people from a wide variety of backgrounds through events at the American Museum of Natural History and the Intrepid Museum in New York City. Lamont also hosts an annual Open House that attracts thousands of visitors from New York City and the surrounding area.

American Museum of Natural History EarthFest, April 13 2019

 The American Museum of Natural History in New York City hosts an annual Earth Day event with interactive demos and presentations open to the general public. I hosted a booth focused on deep ocean sediment core drilling, with live video chats with scientists aboard the JOIDES Resolution (pictured on the left), which was coring near Antarctica to look at iceberg records and the history of the Antarctic ice sheet. 

Intrepid Museum Kids Week, February 19 2019

The Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum hosts an annual Kids Week event. A group of geochemists from Lamont had a table where we set up a number of demonstrations, including one about sediment coring that involved boba straws and a bunch of play-doh. It was almost as fun as the real thing!

LDEO Open House, October 13 2018

Over 3,000 people attended the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory open house this year!! The open house showcases the ground-breaking research being done by scientists at Lamont and includes tons of interactive demonstrations for the public. It was great to get to interact with so many different people from the community and get them excited about science.

​I volunteered with a group of geochemistry grad students and postdocs to teach people about the history of CO2 in the atmosphere, how increased atmospheric pCO2 leads to ocean acidification, and the importance of iron bioavailability.

Los Angeles March for Science, April 22 2017

In 2017, I helped to organize a booth for the Caltech Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the Los Angeles March for Science. We had a number of posters and demonstrations, and we talked to tons of people with a wide variety of scientific backgrounds. We also made some postcards that people could take and mail to friends and family or their congressional representatives.

​Take a look at our postcards and download them to print for yourself!