Jessica Olney: Jessica is an associate professor of Earth Science at Hillsborough Community College. Her research has ranged from studying Ice-Rafted Debris in Ocean Sediment Cores, to Igneous Petrology and Volcanology/Geochemistry in Central Utah and Nicaragua. She has been teaching since graduate school, first as a laboratory teaching assistant in the classroom and on field trips (Ohio State and Northern Illinois); in the summers she was an elderhostel lecturer (Northern Illinois), and in 2004, she was employed as the geologist at Capulin Volcano National Park, New Mexico as part of the Geological Society of America’s GeoCorps America Program (Geologist-in-the Park) where she led interpretive programs, worked on the Capulin’s National Park Service website (science and nature), and participated in the removal of invasive plant species from the park. Since that time, she has taught Physical Geology at Florida State University as a visiting assistant professor, and as an adjunct faculty member in Earth Science at Tallahassee Community College. As of 2007, she has been a full-time faculty member at Hillsborough Community College (Ybor City Campus), earning tenure in 2011. Currently, she teaches lecture and laboratory courses in Earth Science, Physical Geology, and Oceanography.