Greetings! My name is Jen Hammock. I'm the Marine Theme coordinator here at EOL. I first got my feet wet, so to speak, in the Joint Program in Biological Oceanography at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In my doctoral research I studied olfaction (sense of smell) in marine mammals compared with their terrestrial kin. My focal species was the sea otter. More recently I learned about life in the Southern Ocean while working on the Antarctic Invertebrates website at the National Museum of Natural History. I joined EOL in the Fall of 2009.

It's my job to recruit and support marine participation in EOL, so if you're a researcher, educator, student, shell collector, diver or other ocean enthusiast and you would like to get involved, email me!