text: Jill Sutton, University of Brest
  Jill Sutton is an Associate Professor in the biology department at the University of Brest and affiliated researcher at the European Institute for Marine Science (IUEM, France). She obtained her PhD in Earth Sciences from the Australian National University in 2011 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at several institutes including the University of Victoria (Canada), the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada), the University of California, Berkeley (USA), and the IUEM (France). She is a marine biogeochemist and is interested in the evolution of marine biogeochemical cycles and the development of biogeochemical proxies, for example natural abundance silicon and boron stable isotopes in marine organisms.
  Motivation for serving the EAG council
  I would like to serve on the EAG council because I think it would be an excellent way to discover and promote opportunities available to geoscientists in Europe. Having worked as a young scientist in several different countries I appreciate the complexities and limits to finding resources, building collaborative networks, and disseminating information, whether it be for scientific or educational purposes.