Dr. Michelle Guitard (she/her) is currently transitioning from academia to industry. In April she will begin as an analytical chemist at Oregon's Wild Harvest, a family owned and operated herbal supplement company in Central Oregon. She is finishing up as a postdoctoral research scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, where she worked to reconstruct Southern Ocean temperature changes during the last 2.5 million years. Her project applied organic geochemical techniques to sediment records to extract and analyze biomarkers, which served as a paleotemperature proxy. Michelle obtained both her Masters and her PhD from the University of South Florida, where she focused on understanding ice-ocean interactions from marine sediment cores collected along Antarctica’s continental shelf. Michelle’s interest in PSECCO lies in providing adequate resources to underrepresented scientists so that they can thrive in their current and future careers.