Outreach & Media

*Participant, WHOI Payload Workshop (2025)

Mentor, Women's Aquatic Network- partnered with National Academies of Sciences Ocean Studies Board (2025*, 2024)

Mentor, STEM Student Experiences Aboard Ships (STEMSEAS) (2025): STEMSEAS Student Blogs

Alaskan Tribal Outreach- Dutch Harbor, AK (2025)

Mentor, Geological Society of America- Graduate Student Symposium (2024)

STEM Ship-to-Shore Live Interactions, E/V Nautilus (2023)

Volunteer, Ocean Sciences Bowl- Blue Crab Bowl (2019-2015)

Student Representative, Geological Society of America- Sedimentary Geology Division (2018)

Graduate Student Organization Officer (Outreach Coordinator), Department of Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences- Old Dominion University (2016)

*My participation cancelled due to 2025 appropriation lapse

Virginia Space Grant Consortium: Shannon Cofield's Mars Research (2020)

Short Recap: Highlights my research mapping Jezero crater, Mars- when it was a candidate landing site for Mars2020 Perseverance rover

Podcast: On the Range with Shannon Cofield (2021)
Short Recap: Veteran podcast discussing how I navigated the transition from active duty military to college, then to my current career as a geological oceanographer and Mars geologist

Book: STEM Pros by Kevin J. DeBruin (2024); revision STEM Pros 2.0 (2026)

Article: Investigating Potential Seabed Minerals in the Aleutian Arc (2025)

Article: Shannon Cofield, Ph.D. Uses her Knowledge from ODU to Unlock Mysteries on Mars and Beyond (2024)

E/V Nautilus (NA157) Blog: Exploring from the Deep Sea to Deep Space (2023)

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