Beginning as a drilling team senior research assistant in 2023, Sam provided field support for core documentation, sampling, and boxing. She also worked on the Triage Project digital input team. Recently, Sam has joined MGS full-time to assist with mapping for the Aggregate Project. In her new position, she will be continuing to help with field work and Education and Outreach, planning and facilitating in-person events and YouTube content.

Sam graduated from Albion College in May 2023, with a bachelor’s degree in Geology with a fine arts minor. She participated in research through Albion’s honor’s program, creating poster presentations for GSA conferences in 2021 and 2022. As an artist, Sam likes to create diagrams, sculptures, and other modes of visualization to integrate into her research, and communicate geological concepts. Currently, Sam is developing her skills in ArcGIS to continue this passion in the form of creating maps.

See some of Sam’s geoscience education sculptures here.