# Jess Phoenix
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{{Short description|American volcanologist}}
{{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](/source/Smith_College)
[California State University](/source/California_State_University)
| occupation = Volcanologist
Writer
TV personality
}}
'''Jess Phoenix''' (born 1982)[{{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}}][{{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}}] is an American volcanologist, writer and multimedia personality. She is the Science Ambassador of the [Union of Concerned Scientists](/source/Union_of_Concerned_Scientists). She ran as a [Democratic](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) candidate for the [U.S. House of Representatives](/source/United_States_House_of_Representatives). She is the co-host of the [Discovery](/source/Discovery%2C_Inc.) series ''Hunting Atlantis'' and the author of ''Ms. Adventure''.[{{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}}]
== Early life and education ==
Phoenix grew up in Colorado, United States, with two parents who are FBI agents.[{{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](/source/American_Geosciences_Institute)}}] She holds a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) degree in history from [Smith College](/source/Smith_College) and a master's degree in [geology](/source/geology) from [California State University, Los Angeles](/source/California_State_University%2C_Los_Angeles), with a thesis titled ''Lava Flow Morphologies and Structural Features Along the Axis of the South Rift Zone of Loihi Seamount, Hawaii''.[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.][{{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}}] at [Queensland University of Technology](/source/Queensland_University_of_Technology) in Australia studying Mexico's [Sierra Madre Occidental](/source/Sierra_Madre_Occidental) range,[{{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 }}] but withdrew after falling out with her PhD advisor.[{{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}}] published by [Timber Press](/source/Timber_Press), a division of Workman Publishing Group, 2021.[{{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}}][{{Cite web|title=Ms. Adventure|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49150950-ms-adventure|access-date=2022-01-25|website=www.goodreads.com}}] The book was nominated as a finalist for the 2022 AAAS/[Subaru](/source/Subaru) SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the category of Young Adult Science.[{{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 }}]
== Media ==
Phoenix has appeared in the [Discovery](/source/Discovery%2C_Inc.) series ''Trailblazers'' in 2016,[{{Citation |title=Trailblazers |date=2016-04-29 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5674984/ |type=Adventure |publisher=October Films |access-date=2022-11-25}}] ''Devil Sharks'' in 2017,[{{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}}] and [Science Channel](/source/Science_Channel)'s series [''What on Earth?''](/source/What_on_Earth%3F_(American_TV_program)) in 2015.[{{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}}] In 2021 she was a co-host with [Stel Pavlou](/source/Stel_Pavlou) of the Discovery series ''Hunting Atlantis''.[{{Citation |title=Hunting Atlantis (TV Series 2021– ) - IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14167114/ |language=en-US |access-date=2022-11-25}}] ''Hunting Atlantis'' has been criticized by scientists from the [archaeology](/source/archaeology), [anthropology](/source/anthropology), and [history](/source/history) communities for pseudoscience and misrepresenting history and archaeology for entertainment purposes.[{{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}}]
== Political career ==
Phoenix was a candidate in [the 2018 election to represent California in the US House of Representatives](/source/2018_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_California)[{{Cite web |title=Jess Phoenix |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Jess_Phoenix |access-date=2021-09-21 |website=Ballotpedia |language=en}}][{{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}}] a volunteer-based non-profit focused on cataloging the ecosystem in one square kilometer of the [Mojave Desert](/source/Mojave_Desert).