Jess Phoenix | |
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![]() Jess Phoenix at Yellowstone caldera in 2018 | |
Other names | Jess Peláez |
Education |
Smith College California State University |
Occupation(s) | Volcanologist Writer TV personality |
Jess Phoenix (born 1982) [1] [2] is an American volcanologist, writer and multimedia personality. She is the Science Ambassador of the Union of Concerned Scientists. She ran as a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. She is the co-host of the Discovery series Hunting Atlantis and the author of Ms. Adventure. [3]
Phoenix grew up in Colorado, United States, with two parents who are FBI agents. [4] She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Smith College and a master's degree in geology from California State University, Los Angeles, with a thesis titled Lava Flow Morphologies and Structural Features Along the Axis of the South Rift Zone of Loihi Seamount, Hawaii. [5] [4] Phoenix later enrolled in a PhD program with the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences [6] at Queensland University of Technology in Australia studying Mexico's Sierra Madre Occidental range, [7] but withdrew after falling out with her PhD advisor. [1] [4]
Phoenix has written a memoir titled Ms. Adventure: My Wild Explorations in Science, Lava, and Life [8] published by Timber Press, a division of Workman Publishing Group, 2021. [9] [10] The book was nominated as a finalist for the 2022 AAAS/ Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the category of Young Adult Science. [11]
Phoenix has appeared in the Discovery series Trailblazers in 2016, [12] Devil Sharks in 2017, [4] [13] and Science Channel's series What on Earth? in 2015. [14] In 2021 she was a co-host with Stel Pavlou of the Discovery series Hunting Atlantis. [15] Hunting Atlantis has been criticized by scientists from the archaeology, anthropology, and history communities for pseudoscience and misrepresenting history and archaeology for entertainment purposes. [16]
Phoenix was a candidate in the 2018 election to represent California in the US House of Representatives [2] in the 25th Congressional District in California. She lost in the Democratic primary on June 5, 2018, finishing in fourth place with 6.4% of the vote. [17] [1]
Phoenix is married to Carlos Peláez. They both changed their last names to Phoenix in 2012. [4] Together they founded Blueprint Earth, [18] a volunteer-based non-profit focused on cataloging the ecosystem in one square kilometer of the Mojave Desert. [1] [4]
Jess Phoenix | |
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![]() Jess Phoenix at Yellowstone caldera in 2018 | |
Other names | Jess Peláez |
Education |
Smith College California State University |
Occupation(s) | Volcanologist Writer TV personality |
Jess Phoenix (born 1982) [1] [2] is an American volcanologist, writer and multimedia personality. She is the Science Ambassador of the Union of Concerned Scientists. She ran as a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. She is the co-host of the Discovery series Hunting Atlantis and the author of Ms. Adventure. [3]
Phoenix grew up in Colorado, United States, with two parents who are FBI agents. [4] She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Smith College and a master's degree in geology from California State University, Los Angeles, with a thesis titled Lava Flow Morphologies and Structural Features Along the Axis of the South Rift Zone of Loihi Seamount, Hawaii. [5] [4] Phoenix later enrolled in a PhD program with the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences [6] at Queensland University of Technology in Australia studying Mexico's Sierra Madre Occidental range, [7] but withdrew after falling out with her PhD advisor. [1] [4]
Phoenix has written a memoir titled Ms. Adventure: My Wild Explorations in Science, Lava, and Life [8] published by Timber Press, a division of Workman Publishing Group, 2021. [9] [10] The book was nominated as a finalist for the 2022 AAAS/ Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the category of Young Adult Science. [11]
Phoenix has appeared in the Discovery series Trailblazers in 2016, [12] Devil Sharks in 2017, [4] [13] and Science Channel's series What on Earth? in 2015. [14] In 2021 she was a co-host with Stel Pavlou of the Discovery series Hunting Atlantis. [15] Hunting Atlantis has been criticized by scientists from the archaeology, anthropology, and history communities for pseudoscience and misrepresenting history and archaeology for entertainment purposes. [16]
Phoenix was a candidate in the 2018 election to represent California in the US House of Representatives [2] in the 25th Congressional District in California. She lost in the Democratic primary on June 5, 2018, finishing in fourth place with 6.4% of the vote. [17] [1]
Phoenix is married to Carlos Peláez. They both changed their last names to Phoenix in 2012. [4] Together they founded Blueprint Earth, [18] a volunteer-based non-profit focused on cataloging the ecosystem in one square kilometer of the Mojave Desert. [1] [4]