Science Olympiad is the self-described "premiere team STEM competition in the nation." It is an opportunity to get high school students excited about the geosciences and potentially recruit incoming college students. In 2018-2019, I co-wrote and graded the Earth Sciences exams.
In 2019 I and one other graduate student organized and led a recruiting field trip for Rutgers' Earth and Planetary Sciences Department. We took interested undergraduates from introductory classes on a field trip through northern New Jersey, giving them exposure to the joys of field work that was not otherwise available.
I have been involved with AWG for nearly 2 decades, since receiving a Brunton Award for excellence in field research. I served in the student chapter leadership while completing my Master's. Later, I and a group of women revived a defunct chapter, and I served as Scholarship Committee Chairperson for 3 years. Since 2019, I have served on the Brunton Award committee, including a 2-year stint as Chairperson. During that time, I expanded the award's language to include all people whose gender has been historically under-represented in the geosciences, specified that the funding may be used for anything that enables field work, including child care, and our offerings expanded from 2 to 4 awards thanks to the generosity of Brunton.
I was an active participant in the Rutgers pod of URGE in 2021.
I am passionate about mentoring and completed a Microbadge in Undergraduate Mentoring at Rutgers. I have been the primary mentor for 2 undergraduates and have fully trained 4 people on geochemical laboratory methodology for trace elemental analysis. I also worked with 2 field assistants while I was an undergraduate and Master's student.