International Day of Women and Girls in Science at the IODP3 Science Office
Today we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! So here at the IODP3 Science Office we thought we would celebrate our Women in Science and introduce you to our Science Office Team!
Chiara Amadori – Proposals and Meetings Manager
In 2022 I joined IODP Expedition 393 “South Atlantic Transect II” on the JOIDES Resolution, after previously spending eight years studying orogenic systems and foreland sedimentary basins in Italy and the USA.
I’ve also spent weeks working in the IODP Gulf Coast Core Repository in Texas, visited the IODP Core Repository in Bremen, Germany, and participated in multiple outreach activities involving drilling expeditions.
In 2023, I participated in the Multichannel Seismic Survey expedition aboard the R/V Marcus Langseth in the Western Atlantic Ocean and won an ECORD grant for Early Career Researchers.
2024 was another year dedicated to Marine Geoscience because I joined the IODP3 Science Office as the Proposals and Meetings Manager. This role gives me direct contact with the science and the talented teams behind all future drilling and SPARC expeditions, and that is super exciting!
Jodie Fisher – Science Communication, Applications and EDI Manager
I have not sailed on an IODP expedition yet, but I have been to sea on the RRS James Cook and have first-hand experience of working with core materials from the Indian Ocean collected on ODP Leg 122 and 123 as part of my PhD research.
Since finishing my PhD, I have worked as a post-doc, an outreach officer, and a technical specialist. With a passion for EDI, I have been involved in a number of initiatives to improve EDI within higher education, and co-founded “Girls into Geoscience” to raise awareness of the geosciences to school-aged girls keen to find out more. I am really looking forward to bringing my science communication and EDI experience to my new role, and to liaising with members of the international scientific drilling community wanting to get involved in IODP3.
Myriam Kars – Publications Manager
My interest in scientific ocean drilling was triggered during my graduate studies. My first experience at sea was as a paleomagnetist on the JOIDES Resolution in 2014 for IODP Expedition 350. This unforgettable experience actually started my love story with scientific ocean drilling. I had the chance to be based in the Kochi Core Center in Japan at that time, one of three IODP core repositories in the world, with direct access to legacy cores and cutting-edge research facilities. Nearly a decade later, I joined IODP-JRSO in Texas as a marine technician on the JOIDES Resolution. I loved and enjoyed my life at sea. I have met amazing scientists and seen wonders. After the end of the JR operations, I joined the newly created IODP3 Science Office at the University of Plymouth as its Publications Manager. I am the Managing Editor of the new journal “Proceedings of the International Ocean Drilling Programme”, liaising with our partners Copernicus Publications. I am very excited about my new role dealing with all aspects of IODP3 publications. As a research manager, I will continue my research activities in rock magnetism using marine cores. A new exciting chapter begins.