Olivia Truax from Chapel Hill, North Carolina completed an MSc at the University of Otago, supported by a Fulbright US Graduate Award. She graduated with a BA from Amherst College in 2016.
She is now undertaking a PhD at the University of Otago. Olivia is working on a paleomagnetic, geochemical, and diatom based record of Holocene paleoclimate evolution from Robertson Bay, Antarctica.