Alice Chang recently finished her Ph.D. at Carleton University in Ottawa (2004), working on a project involving high-resolution diatom paleoecology, sediment analysis, and paleoclimate reconstruction from Late Holocene laminated sediments from Effingham Inlet, Vancouver Island, Canada. She received a B.Sc. (1995) and M.Sc. (1997) in Geological Sciences from the University of British Columbia, where her thesis projects focused on Miocene laminated diatomites from southern California. Alice is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, where she is working on the geochemistry of marine cores from the Vancouver Island shelf region. The photograph shows Alice in the model jaws of a Megalodon shark from the Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans, Louisiana.