We got the chance to sit in on Jessie Christian’s M.S. Thesis defense in Geoscience on Friday morning, February 24th, 2023. Her research project, entitled, “Citizen Science: Shoreline Change Monitoring in Southwest Alaska,” took her to two sites in Dillingham and Chignik Bay where she collected data alongside coastal communities to monitor shoreline erosion and add to our understanding of the effects of climate change.