IODP

Kellan worked as an Onboard Outreach Officer (OOO) for the JOIDES Resolution (JR) during Expedition 401. As an OOO, Kellan was in charge of writing blog posts for the JR webpage, creating social media posts, writing reports, running live tours, and a personal project. In addition to this work, Kellan took over 5000 photos (see Photog. for that work). Her photography was used to create various social media posts including a few recreation photos of previous expeditions and highlights of the drilling crew.

Kellan’s personal project included 18 original pieces of artwork, both digital and traditional. This artwork features various members from the 401 science party and IODP/SIEM Offshore crew. This artwork highlights the specific science completed while aboard the JR.

Her personal project also includes a “before and after” portrait series of 6 members from the science party: Zhiyang Li, Zakaria Yousfi, Erika Tanaka, Fransisco Tovar-Rodriguez, Rachel Flecker, and Emmanuelle Ducassou. Each was drawn twice, once at the beginning of the two-month cruise and once at the end, showing the physical (and potentially emotional) changes the scientists faced during their expedition.

Since the cruise, Kellan attended the X401 Sampling Party in Bremen, Germany (July 2024), creating a live drawing of the Bremen Core Repository and a three-part series on the sampling process, and held an exhibit at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference in December 2024 through the United States Science Support Program (USSSP). Kellan plans to continue making artwork for this science party well into the future.

Videos showing the art process were posted to the JR social media accounts: live sketches of the scientists at work and warming up before the real thing.