Amy Hagen
@spicegirl.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Virginia Tech studying sedimentary geochemistry. Smith College ‘21 (she/her) Big fan of the SPICE event🤩
New paper out today assigning a cnidarian affinity to the early Cambrian small shelly fossils Salterella and Volborthella! Fun work to be a part of, AND I get to add ‘paleoartist’ to my CV😉
doi.org/10.1017/jpa....
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A Cnidarian affinity for Salterella and Volborthella: implications for the evolution of shells | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core
A Cnidarian affinity for Salterella and Volborthella: implications for the evolution of shells
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October 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
New paper out today assigning a cnidarian affinity to the early Cambrian small shelly fossils Salterella and Volborthella! Fun work to be a part of, AND I get to add ‘paleoartist’ to my CV😉
doi.org/10.1017/jpa....
doi.org/10.1017/jpa....
Last week I sat down with my colleague Rose to recap my 2024 paper for the VT Geos department podcast!
youtu.be/nZQExNop_ZI
youtu.be/nZQExNop_ZI
Iron, Clay, and Redox with Amy Hagen
YouTube video by VT Geosciences
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September 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Last week I sat down with my colleague Rose to recap my 2024 paper for the VT Geos department podcast!
youtu.be/nZQExNop_ZI
youtu.be/nZQExNop_ZI
Turns out putting a school-sanctioned golf course right next to a school-sanctioned student parking lot is a really bad idea! Thanks VT🫡
September 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Turns out putting a school-sanctioned golf course right next to a school-sanctioned student parking lot is a really bad idea! Thanks VT🫡
It’s really great to see programs like this out here, but they’re missing a critical group: postdocs! We need to be investing in the next generation so that we continue to have a solid pipeline from PhD to faculty. We’re at risk of falling through the cracks. Not that I’m biased or anything…
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August 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It’s really great to see programs like this out here, but they’re missing a critical group: postdocs! We need to be investing in the next generation so that we continue to have a solid pipeline from PhD to faculty. We’re at risk of falling through the cracks. Not that I’m biased or anything…
Goodbye to one of my two opportunities to get a federally funded postdoc fellowship. I’m trying to carry on as normal but it seems like each day things get more hopeless…
August 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Goodbye to one of my two opportunities to get a federally funded postdoc fellowship. I’m trying to carry on as normal but it seems like each day things get more hopeless…
I’m going to be very busy the rest of the week. Taylor Swift needs my manuscript by Friday!
August 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I’m going to be very busy the rest of the week. Taylor Swift needs my manuscript by Friday!
Got to check Kīlauea off my geology bucket list this weekend! Had a wonderful time despite the eruption being paused.
August 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Got to check Kīlauea off my geology bucket list this weekend! Had a wonderful time despite the eruption being paused.
Microbes were going crazy after Snowball Earth. Very cool to see the Rasthof Fm cap carbonate in Namibia!
July 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Microbes were going crazy after Snowball Earth. Very cool to see the Rasthof Fm cap carbonate in Namibia!
It’s dark times, but here’s a small victory: I won a Schlanger Fellowship for 2025-26! 🎉 In a fun coincidence, my dad sailed with Dr. Schlanger in the 1980s. We talk about it in this episode of the Tales from the Deep podcast: archive.storycorps.org/interviews/i...
"It's interesting to listen to her and realize she's doing things so radically different from what I did... I'm glad she's excited about it"
This father-daughter conversation is with Virginia Tech graduate student and Schlanger Fellow Amy Hagen, along with her father, Dr. Rick Hagen. Amy shares her scientific ocean drilling research and in...
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June 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It’s dark times, but here’s a small victory: I won a Schlanger Fellowship for 2025-26! 🎉 In a fun coincidence, my dad sailed with Dr. Schlanger in the 1980s. We talk about it in this episode of the Tales from the Deep podcast: archive.storycorps.org/interviews/i...
This is beyond devastating. I can’t believe this is our reality right now… 0 geoscience postdocs for 2026? Seriously, wtf am I supposed to do???
NSF budget proposal guts GRFP by 55%, kills the NRT (Research and Training Fellowship) program, and completely zeros out (yes, $0) nearly all postdoctoral fellowship programs, including Geosciences.
May 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
This is beyond devastating. I can’t believe this is our reality right now… 0 geoscience postdocs for 2026? Seriously, wtf am I supposed to do???
Just booked tickets to my #1 fieldwork bucket list location: Namibia!!! 🇳🇦
May 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Just booked tickets to my #1 fieldwork bucket list location: Namibia!!! 🇳🇦
After my grant was cancelled last week, I spoke with NPR about how science cuts are hurting US scientists:
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www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...
Scientists reel as turmoil roils National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up, with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget.
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May 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
After my grant was cancelled last week, I spoke with NPR about how science cuts are hurting US scientists:
www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...
www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...
Yesterday I was awarded $10k in research funds, today the grant was terminated by NSF. Would love someone to explain how this is making America great again…
April 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Yesterday I was awarded $10k in research funds, today the grant was terminated by NSF. Would love someone to explain how this is making America great again…
Really excited to participate in this virtual panel as part of #ScienceTalk 2025! The VT SciComm ecosystem has been one of my favorite parts of my time at Virginia Tech😊
March 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Really excited to participate in this virtual panel as part of #ScienceTalk 2025! The VT SciComm ecosystem has been one of my favorite parts of my time at Virginia Tech😊
My interpretation of Pokemon x fossil organisms! First up: Anomalocaris, colored hot pink because why not. Who should I do next? #paleoart
February 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
My interpretation of Pokemon x fossil organisms! First up: Anomalocaris, colored hot pink because why not. Who should I do next? #paleoart
Probably the only time I will get to say this in my life: My paper came back from review and one reviewer said it should be accepted AS IS (!!!)
January 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Probably the only time I will get to say this in my life: My paper came back from review and one reviewer said it should be accepted AS IS (!!!)
Bighorn sheep skull from the Pahranagat Mountains, Nevada! The horns can weigh up to 30lbs (they sure felt heavy to me!)
January 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Bighorn sheep skull from the Pahranagat Mountains, Nevada! The horns can weigh up to 30lbs (they sure felt heavy to me!)
Merry Fieldmas! Recently returned from some chilly fieldwork in western MD. We finally finished the section I’ve been working since 2020 — over 2000 meters measured!
December 17, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Merry Fieldmas! Recently returned from some chilly fieldwork in western MD. We finally finished the section I’ve been working since 2020 — over 2000 meters measured!
Fossils **in outcrop** in Calvert County, MD! Most of the time we find these Miocene shells in loose sediments, but this bed in my local park preserves them as internal molds.
December 1, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Fossils **in outcrop** in Calvert County, MD! Most of the time we find these Miocene shells in loose sediments, but this bed in my local park preserves them as internal molds.
Only a few more days left to access my new paper for free! Iron speciation, archaeocyaths, and more in the December issue of Chemical Geology:
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November 13, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Only a few more days left to access my new paper for free! Iron speciation, archaeocyaths, and more in the December issue of Chemical Geology:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1jxxO26gan...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1jxxO26gan...
Big news: I’m headed to Australia in just over a month to participate in the ANZIC (Australia & NZ’s IODP branch) Marine Geoscience Masterclass in Queensland, fully funded thanks to the USSSP!! I can’t even express how freaking excited I am!!! 🪸🌞🌊
December 4, 2023 at 11:46 PM
Big news: I’m headed to Australia in just over a month to participate in the ANZIC (Australia & NZ’s IODP branch) Marine Geoscience Masterclass in Queensland, fully funded thanks to the USSSP!! I can’t even express how freaking excited I am!!! 🪸🌞🌊
Photo really doesn’t do it justice, but this is my tribute to phosphorus speciation, the scariest of all geochem lab procedures. 👻
October 31, 2023 at 12:46 AM
Photo really doesn’t do it justice, but this is my tribute to phosphorus speciation, the scariest of all geochem lab procedures. 👻
Hi! 👋 If you’re heading to GSA next weekend please consider checking out my talk on Sunday morning! Should be a fun discussion of the weird & wonderful Harkless Fm and the Fe speciation proxy😊
October 4, 2023 at 1:42 PM
Hi! 👋 If you’re heading to GSA next weekend please consider checking out my talk on Sunday morning! Should be a fun discussion of the weird & wonderful Harkless Fm and the Fe speciation proxy😊