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== Advocacy ==
== Advocacy ==
Joye has always been involved in ocean education and outreach and advocacy work, but her advocacy efforts increased significantly after she became engaged as a scientific responder during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill [51]. Locally and regionally, through the ECOGIG program, Joye initiated the “Science at the Stadium” program [52], which evolved into the “Ocean Discovery Zone” [53]. The “Ocean Discovery Zone” portable platform has helped educate students and the general public in Georgia and up and down the East coast about the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem and ocean science in general [54].
Joye has always been involved in ocean education and outreach and advocacy work, but her advocacy efforts increased significantly after she became engaged as a scientific responder during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.redandblack.com/news/blue-blood-samantha-joye-says-life-experiences-led-her-to/article_36288596-746d-5fcd-a446-f75d32934eb5.html|title=BLUE BLOOD: Samantha Joye says life experiences led her to Gulf|last=Duncan|first=Dallas|date=|work=The Red and Black|access-date=10 June 2018|language=en}}</ref>. Locally and regionally, through the ECOGIG program, Joye initiated the “Science at the Stadium” program<ref>{{Citation|last=ECOGIG|title=Science at the Stadium|date=2015-11-23|url=https://vimeo.com/146648883|accessdate=2018-06-11}}</ref>, which evolved into the “Ocean Discovery Zone”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ecogig.org/ocean-discovery-zone|title=:: ECOGIG - Ocean Discovery Zone ::|last=|first=|date=|website=ecogig.org|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=10 June 2018}}</ref>. The “Ocean Discovery Zone” portable platform has helped educate students and the general public in Georgia and up and down the East coast about the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem and ocean science in general<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ecogig.org/outreach-events|title=:: ECOGIG - Outreach Events ::|last=|first=|date=|website=ecogig.org|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=10 June 2018}}</ref>.


Nationally and internationally, Joye has held educational events to celebrate World Oceans Day [55] and frequently speaks at EarthX (formerly Earth Day Texas) [56]. In 2015, she began working with [[BBC Earth]] and [http://www.oceanx.org/ OceanX], formerly Alucia Productions, on the deep ocean episode of [[Blue Planet II|Blue Planet 2]]. Joye was one of the lead science advisors for [http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/planet-earth-blue-planet-ii/season-1/episode-02-the-deep “The Deep” episode of Blue Planet 2] and is featured in a number of digital shorts about the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_HBgvmrhGU Future of the Oceans] and [https://vimeo.com/253469529 Brine Pools: Exploring an Alien World for Blue Planet II]. One of the shorts is a profile of Joye, describing how she became an oceanographer and what keeps her excited about working in the deep sea ([https://vimeo.com/261150468 Searching for Cures in the Deep Sea]). Joye enjoys sharing her story with others (57, 58) in the hope of inspiring young women to engage in science careers and to motivate the public to learn more about the ocean. She is wholly committed to ocean advocacy work and feels strongly that scientists have an obligation to share their science and their passion broadly.
Nationally and internationally, Joye has held educational events to celebrate World Oceans Day<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ecogig.org/outreach-item?type=O&id=26|title=:: ECOGIG - Outreach ::|last=|first=|date=|website=ecogig.org|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=10 June 2018}}</ref> and frequently speaks at EarthX (formerly Earth Day Texas)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://earthx.org/ocean/|title=EarthX 2019|last=|first=|date=|website=EarthX 2019|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=10 June 2018}}</ref>. In 2015, she began working with [[BBC Earth]] and [http://www.oceanx.org/ OceanX], formerly Alucia Productions, on the deep ocean episode of [[Blue Planet II|Blue Planet 2]]. Joye was one of the lead science advisors for [http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/planet-earth-blue-planet-ii/season-1/episode-02-the-deep “The Deep” episode of Blue Planet 2] and is featured in a number of digital shorts about the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_HBgvmrhGU Future of the Oceans] and [https://vimeo.com/253469529 Brine Pools: Exploring an Alien World for Blue Planet II]. One of the shorts is a profile of Joye, describing how she became an oceanographer and what keeps her excited about working in the deep sea ([https://vimeo.com/261150468 Searching for Cures in the Deep Sea]). Joye enjoys sharing her story with others<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://earther.com/this-badass-woman-explores-the-deep-sea-to-help-us-save-1824210007|title=This Badass Woman Explores the Deep Sea to Help Us Save It|last=Funes|first=Yessenia|date=|work=Earther|access-date=10 June 2018|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://earthzine.org/2017/10/04/deeper-water-horizons-the-quest-of-mandy-joye/|title=Deeper Water Horizons - the Quest of Mandy Joye|last=|first=|date=2017-10-04|work=Earthzine|access-date=10 June 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> in the hope of inspiring young women to engage in science careers and to motivate the public to learn more about the ocean. She is wholly committed to ocean advocacy work and feels strongly that scientists have an obligation to share their science and their passion broadly.


== Awards and Honors ==
== Awards and Honors ==





Revision as of 18:52, 11 June 2018

Samantha Benton Joye is internationally renowned oceanographer and ocean advocate. She is a Professor at the University of Georgia in the Department of Marine Sciences, where she holds the Athletic Association Distinguished Professorship in Arts and Sciences[1].

Early Life and Education

Samantha Joye was born in Laurinburg, NC. She grew up in a small town along the North/South Carolina border and graduated as valedictorian of her class at Marlboro Academy in 1983. She grew up working on her father’s farm. After receiving a microscope for a birthday present when she was 9 years old, Joye became fascinated by the small organisms, spending hours looking at water samples through the microscope[2]. Her love for the ocean began at a young age during the time she spent each summer exploring the South Carolina coast with her family. She entered college intending to become a doctor, having primary interests in internal medicine and neonatology. After taking an elective oceanography course from an amazing professor, Dr. Conrad Neuman, as a junior, she realized she could turn her love for the ocean into her life’s work and decided to pursue a career in Oceanography[3]. She received her Ph.D. in Marine Sciences from The University of North Carolina in 1993, after receiving her B.Sc. from there in 1987 and her M.Sc. from there in 1989.

Scientific career

Known as “Mandy” to her friends and colleagues, Joye joined the faculty at the University of Georgia in 1997 after a short stint at Texas A&M University, where she was an assistant professor in Oceanography from 1995-1997. Prior to serving as an assistant professor at Texas A&M, she was a post doc at the Romberg Center for Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University, in Tiburon, CA (1993-1995). Joye has authored >150 papers in peer-reviewed journals[4] and 14 peer-reviewed book chapters on topics ranging from coastal carbon and nitrogen cycling, hydrocarbon cycling in the marine environment, and geobiology of deep sea extreme environments to carbon and nitrogen cycling in polar environments.

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform suffered a loss of well control that resulted in a large explosion and fire. Eleven men were killed during the explosion and fire and two days later, on April 22, 2010, the drilling platform sank, severing the riser pipe at the seabed and leading to an uncontrolled discharge of oil and gas from the broken wellhead. Joye began studying methane and hydrocarbon dynamics in the Gulf of Mexico in 1994, putting her in a strong position to lead scientific response efforts during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion[5]. Joye was involved as a shore-based scientist in the first academic expedition in response to the oil spill on board the R/V Pelican (5 May 2010) that was led by Vernon Asper and Arne Diercks. She was the chief scientist on the second academic research expedition on board the F.G. Walton Smith, which sailed in late May 2010.

Work conducted on the R/V Pelican expedition led to the discovery of deepwater oil plumes[6], hydrocarbon rich layers in the water column that were neutrally buoyant above the seafloor but well below the surface (at about 1050 m below the surface; about 450 m above the bottom). This finding was very controversial and it was received initially with a great deal of skepticism[7]. During the F.G. Walton Smith expedition, National Public Radio ran a story about the deepwater plumes that garnered national attention[8]. After the expedition, Joye testified before Congress in a hearing before the House Energy and Environment Committee to share evidence that the deepwater plumes did, in fact, exist[9]. Shortly thereafter, the finding was confirmed by NOAA[10][11][12], leading to an effort to quantify the fate of the hydrocarbons hidden deep beneath the water’s surface as part of the Natural Resources Damage Assessment.

Several months later, in mid-August 2010, Joye embarked on another mission to attempt to explore the fate of discharged oil and gas[13]. On that expedition, Joye reported another controversial finding: the discovery of recently deposited oil-rich layers on the seabed, suggesting that some of the Deepwater Horizon oil may have been removed via sedimentation and was on the seabed[14][15]. She returned to the area in December 2010 with the research submersible ALVIN to dive to the seafloor and obtain a firsthand view of the situation[16] [17][18]. While this finding was also greeted initially with some degree of skepticism, it was ultimately proven correct[19][20][21]. The discovery of oil sedimentation as a fate for discharged oil was immensely important[22]. This event had a very negative on benthic fauna, including infauna and long-lived cold water coral[23][24], meaning that oil sedimentation represents a long-term impact on the benthic ecosystem[25].

Joye’s role in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response transitioned into a leading role in the post spill assessment. She was the Associate Director of Science of the first “Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas in the Gulf” research consortium[26] and the Project Director for the second program, “Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas in the Gulf-2”[27][28]. Her research continues to track the impacts and fate of hydrocarbons derived from the Deepwater Horizon incident, as well as to conduct parallel studies of natural hydrocarbon seeps to foster advances in understanding how microbial populations process hydrocarbons[29][30].

Press Coverage

Joye’s research on the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill received extensive media coverage and she continues to be a source for the media regarding the microbiological processing of hydrocarbons in the environment, the dynamics of extreme environments, and general oceanography. She has been interviewed, quoted, or featured in numerous news stories, including multiple interviews by CNN, C&EN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, BBC, Science, Nature, The Atlantic, Canadian Broadcast Cooperation (CBC), National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Scientific American, and Discover, among others[31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46]. Joye’s oil spill research was the topic of two UGA-produced documentaries (Black and Blue: Beneath the Gulf Oil Disaster[47] and Atlantis Revealed: Where the Oil Went). Black and Blue won a regional Emmy award[48]. Her work was highlighted in the fall 2010 issue of the Georgia Magazine[49] and the winter 2015 issue of the Georgia Magazine[50]. Joye was featured in oil spill documentaries produced by National Geographic, Animal Planet, the CBC, and the BBC and was a major character in a book on the oil spill (Black Tide[51], authored by Antonia Juhasz and published in April 2011).

Advocacy

Joye has always been involved in ocean education and outreach and advocacy work, but her advocacy efforts increased significantly after she became engaged as a scientific responder during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill[52]. Locally and regionally, through the ECOGIG program, Joye initiated the “Science at the Stadium” program[53], which evolved into the “Ocean Discovery Zone”[54]. The “Ocean Discovery Zone” portable platform has helped educate students and the general public in Georgia and up and down the East coast about the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem and ocean science in general[55].

Nationally and internationally, Joye has held educational events to celebrate World Oceans Day[56] and frequently speaks at EarthX (formerly Earth Day Texas)[57]. In 2015, she began working with BBC Earth and OceanX, formerly Alucia Productions, on the deep ocean episode of Blue Planet 2. Joye was one of the lead science advisors for “The Deep” episode of Blue Planet 2 and is featured in a number of digital shorts about the Future of the Oceans and Brine Pools: Exploring an Alien World for Blue Planet II. One of the shorts is a profile of Joye, describing how she became an oceanographer and what keeps her excited about working in the deep sea (Searching for Cures in the Deep Sea). Joye enjoys sharing her story with others[58][59] in the hope of inspiring young women to engage in science careers and to motivate the public to learn more about the ocean. She is wholly committed to ocean advocacy work and feels strongly that scientists have an obligation to share their science and their passion broadly.

Awards and Honors

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