{{Short description|American volcanologist}}
<!-- Note: The following pages were redirects to Jess_Phoenix before draftification: *Draft:Jess Phoenix --> {{Infobox person | name = Jess Phoenix | image = Jess Phoenix at Yellowstone caldera, 2018.jpg | caption = Jess Phoenix at Yellowstone caldera in 2018 | other_names = Jess Peláez | education = Smith College <br> California State University | occupation = Volcanologist <br> Writer <br> TV personality }} '''Jess Phoenix''' (born 1982)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Mervis |first=Jeffrey |date=15 June 2018 |title=The science candidates: Jess Phoenix says her defeat shows how much in politics needs to change |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/science-candidates-jess-phoenix-says-her-defeat-shows-how-much-politics-needs-change |access-date=2021-09-21 |website=Science |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Astor |first=Maggie |date=2018-05-30 |title=Meet Jess Phoenix, the Volcanologist Running for Congress in California |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/us/politics/jess-phoenix-congress-climate-change.html |access-date=2021-09-21 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> 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''.<ref name=":2">{{Citation|title=Hunting Atlantis|date=2021-07-21|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14167114/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0|type=Fantasy, Reality-TV|publisher=Revelations Entertainment|access-date=2021-09-26}}</ref>
== Early life and education == Phoenix grew up in Colorado, United States, with two parents who are FBI agents.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Derouin|first=Sarah|date=December 11, 2017|title=Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Jess Phoenix|url=https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/down-earth-volcanologist-jess-phoenix/|access-date=2021-09-21|website=Earth Magazine|publisher=American Geosciences Institute}}</ref> 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''.<ref>Deemer, J.L., 2010. Lava Flow Morphologies and Structural Features Along the Axis of the South Rift Zone of Loihi Seamount, Hawaii. Los Angeles: California State University Press.</ref><ref name=":1" /> Phoenix later enrolled in a PhD program with the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.qut.edu.au/about/faculty-of-science/school-of-earth-and-atmospheric-sciences|title=School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences|first=Queensland University of|last=Technology (QUT)|website=QUT}}</ref> at Queensland University of Technology in Australia studying Mexico's Sierra Madre Occidental range,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bryan |first1=Scott |last2=Ferrari |first2=Luca |last3=Ramos-Rosique |first3=Aldo |last4=Allen |first4=Charlotte |last5=Martinez-Lopez |first5=Margarita |last6=Orozco-Esquivel |first6=Teresa |last7=Pelaez |first7=Jessica |date=2011 |title=Consequences of extensional tectonics on volcanic eruption style, compositions and source regions : new insights from the southern Sierra Madre Occidental and Gulf of California regions, western Mexico |url=http://www.iugg2011.com/abstracts/index.html |journal=25 IUGG General Assembly |language=en |pages=1–2 |access-date=2022-11-25 |archive-date=2014-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140126101537/http://iugg2011.com/abstracts/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> but withdrew after falling out with her PhD advisor.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
== Books == Phoenix has written a memoir titled ''Ms. Adventure: My Wild Explorations in Science, Lava, and Life''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ms. Adventure |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/74604917-ms-adventure-my-wild-explorations-in-science-lava-and-life |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=www.goodreads.com}}</ref> published by Timber Press, a division of Workman Publishing Group, 2021.<ref name="timberpress.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.timberpress.com/authors/jess-phoenix|title=Gardening, Horticulture, and Natural history|date=6 January 2023|access-date=18 December 2021|archive-date=18 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211218221740/https://www.timberpress.com/authors/jess-phoenix|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ms. Adventure|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49150950-ms-adventure|access-date=2022-01-25|website=www.goodreads.com}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sbfprize.org/blog/finalists-2022-young-adult|title = Finalists for 2022 Young Adult Science Book Award| date=18 November 2021 }}</ref>
== Media == Phoenix has appeared in the Discovery series ''Trailblazers'' in 2016,<ref>{{Citation |title=Trailblazers |date=2016-04-29 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5674984/ |type=Adventure |publisher=October Films |access-date=2022-11-25}}</ref> ''Devil Sharks'' in 2017,<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Citation|title=Devil Sharks|date=2017-07-26|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10718658/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1|series=Shark Week|access-date=2021-09-26}}</ref> and Science Channel's series ''What on Earth?'' in 2015.<ref>{{Citation|title=What on Earth?|date=2015-02-02|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4543056/?ref_=nm_knf_t2|type=Documentary|publisher=Wag TV|access-date=2021-09-26}}</ref> In 2021 she was a co-host with Stel Pavlou of the Discovery series ''Hunting Atlantis''.<ref>{{Citation |title=Hunting Atlantis (TV Series 2021– ) - IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14167114/ |language=en-US |access-date=2022-11-25}}</ref> ''Hunting Atlantis'' has been criticized by scientists from the archaeology, anthropology, and history communities for pseudoscience and misrepresenting history and archaeology for entertainment purposes.<ref name="Moss">{{Cite news|last=Moss|first=Candida|date=2021-09-12|title=Atlantis, Which No Serious Historian Thinks Existed, Is Making People Insane on Twitter|language=en|work=The Daily Beast|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/atlantis-which-no-serious-historian-thinks-existed-is-making-people-insane-on-twitter|access-date=2021-09-26}}</ref>
== Political career == Phoenix was a candidate in the 2018 election to represent California in the US House of Representatives<ref name=":3" /> 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.<ref name="bp">{{Cite web |title=Jess Phoenix |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Jess_Phoenix |access-date=2021-09-21 |website=Ballotpedia |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
== Personal life == Phoenix is married to Carlos Peláez. They both changed their last names to Phoenix in 2012.<ref name=":1" /> Together they founded Blueprint Earth,<ref name="Totten">{{cite news |last1=Totten |first1=Sanden |title=Desert in a Box |url=https://www.heatofthemoment.org/features/desert/ |work=Heat of the Moment |publisher=WBEZ Chicago |date=4 May 2016}}</ref> a volunteer-based non-profit focused on cataloging the ecosystem in one square kilometer of the Mojave Desert.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
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==External links== *{{official website}} *{{IMDb name|nm5743747}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Phoenix, Jess}} Category:American women television hosts Category:California State University, Los Angeles, alumni Category:Smith College alumni Category:1982 births Category:Living people Category:Television personalities from Colorado Category:Candidates in the 2018 United States elections Category:California Democrats