Michelle Guitard is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Florida, College of Marine Science in St. Petersburg, Florida. She has been part of the Shevenell Lab since 2012 and received her Masters in 2015.
My area of study is Paleoceanography. I use ocean sediments to determine past changes in Antarctic and the surrounding Southern Ocean. I have sailed aboard the R/V Laurence M. Gould and the RV/IB Nathanial B. Palmer to both the Antarctic Peninsula and East Antarctica. My most recent cruise aboard the JOIDES Resolution took me to the Southern Ocean with the aim of reconstructing Antarctic Ice Sheet history over the last 14 million years
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Pingback: 10/30/2013 – Gravity, Nausea, and Cape Shirreff | Expedition Antarctica
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Pingback: 11/9/2013 – Slow Going Through the Sea Ice | Expedition Antarctica
Pingback: 1/27/2014 – Mysteries of East Antarctica’s Totten Glacier System | Expedition Antarctica
Pingback: 1/27/2014 – A Long Way Here and a Long Way to Go | Expedition Antarctica
Pingback: 2/4/2014 – The Method to the Madness | Expedition Antarctica
Pingback: 2/10/2014 – Entering Totten | Expedition Antarctica
Pingback: 2/15/2014 – Playing in the Mud | Expedition Antarctica
Pingback: 2/23/2014 – Palmer Fever | Expedition Antarctica
Pingback: 3/1/2014 – Everything Antarctica | Expedition Antarctica
Pingback: IODP Expedition 382 Week 1: Our foray into Iceberg Alley and Subantarctic Ice and Ocean Dynamics | Expedition Antarctica
Pingback: IODP Exp. 382 Week 2: Our first cores and the chaos that ensued | Expedition Antarctica
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Pingback: IODP Exp. 382 Week 5: Our journey through time | Expedition Antarctica
I am attending your presentation tonight at AMNH SciCafe and ran across this blog. What a great experience; congrats on your PhD. How fascinating when youthful proclivities lead us down a path. Best of luck on a rewarding career.
I am actually headed to Ushuaia next month for an Antarctic trip. Was hoping you might share travel tips. My trip is 10 days navigating Drake Passage to Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands. Naturalists onboard rather than scientific researchers.